Date
15 August – 16 September 2018

For kids growing up in Australia, the local milk bar was more than just a shop – it was a symbol of freedom. For Callum Preston, the milk bar was a meeting place and a cherished after-school ritual in a time before SMS and Instagram – a place where you’d just turn up and see who else arrived.

As a child in the 1990s, Preston well remembers his neighbourhood milk bar as a place of wonder: the buzzing neon, the faded posters of Diet Coke-loving windsurfers, collector cards, musk sticks, jelly snakes, cigarette ads, the smell of pies and the enticing crack of soft drink cans being opened.

With these golden years now a distant memory, the Melbourne-based artist, sculptor, illustrator, and co-founder of trail-blazing creative hub, Everfresh Studios, has turned his efforts to recreating his own childhood milk bar, completely by hand – one chip packet and Coke can at a time.

Opening Party

Wednesday 15 August 2018, 2:00pm
Hear the artist Callum Preston speak on his work followed by a free workshop