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Garden sheds feature in art exhibition

17:11:20 4th November 2010

Garden sheds are taking centre stage at an art exhibition currently running in Australia.

Titled Into the Shed, the exhibition has been created by the Artful Dodgers Studio and is being held at the Fortyfivedownstairs gallery in Melbourne.

The showcase, which will run until Saturday (November 6th), focuses on a fantasy garden theme and features a number of graffiti-covered sheds.

It also includes multi-media installations, paintings, drawings and sculptures of alien plant forms.

"The space will become an evocative sensory experience through the artists' creative interpretations of what exactly it is we keep tucked away in our garden sheds," the Fortyfivedownstairs website claims.

Sheds cannot only be used as a canvas for art, but a place in which to house an artist's creations.

This was proven by a San Francisco resident who transformed a shed into an art studio and won an award from the American Society of Landscape Architects. ADNFCR-2655-ID-800218546-ADNFCR

Robin Antill+

garden sheds in 1979.

31 years experience.

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