Artist: Ritchie Ned Hansel
Work: Abandoned Trolley Project (2010)
Partner: Fremantle Arts Centre
Location: Fremantle, Western Australia
While on a two-month residency in Fremantle, Jakarta-based artist, Ritchie Ned Hansel, came to identify the abandoned shopping trolley as an untapped site for street art intervention. Creating fabric covers for the trolleys, which in turn became canvases for a series of graf paintings, Ned Hansel transformed these ubiquitous objects into platforms for anti-consumerist slogans. Featured in a music video created by the artist with Fremantle band, The Useless Thing, the trolleys soon drew the interest of local street artists who began working with Ned Hansel.
On his return to Indonesia, Ned Hansel extended the Abandoned Trolley Project to include the work of both Indonesia and Australian street artists. The resulting works are presented throughout the grounds of the Fremantle Arts Centre in a bold display of collective creativity and consumerist critique.
