Love Is Here

Overview

There are as many ways to say “I love you” as there are ways to avoid saying it. We say it to friends, to family, to lovers and maybe even to the guy at the local pie shop when he lets you off $0.30 for those plastic packets of tomato sauce. We say it over Skype conversations and in text messages, we say it with chocolate, we say it with wine and we far too often say it because of wine.

In the book and exhibition ‘Love is Here’ 35 artists say it with pictures, revealing their own creative and personal response to one of the world’s most overused phrases. Luckily, however, all of the works being exhibited are far more earnest and original than gifting a box of assorted chocolates or hiding a ring in a big hunk of cake. Those taking part in the exhibition include Daniel Angley, Rachael Baker, Ben and Jodi Churchward, Rach Burke, Tal Fitzpatrick, Erin Forsyth, Alice Kenny, Fee Harding and Jennifer Ho — who were shortlisted from all around Australia.

And if you’re looking for another way to express your own feelings of adoration, whether they’re for your granny or your local pie guy, check out the accompanying book — it’s ‘perfect bound’ so the individual pages can be torn out and gifted.