{"id":763147,"date":"2026-06-27T06:18:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T06:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/763147\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T06:18:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T06:18:29","slug":"interactive-exhibition-encourages-patrons-to-colour-in-art-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/763147\/","title":{"rendered":"Interactive exhibition encourages patrons to colour in art themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is not every day that you can walk into an art exhibition and become the artist.<\/p>\n

But a new exhibition in the regional Victorian city of Ballarat encourages the idea that art is for all by getting patrons to colour in the artworks themselves.<\/p>\n

Memento Mori: Unleashed is an exhibition composed of images from Xander Savage’s colouring book, Memento Mori.<\/p>\n

“It’s all about making art interactive and going along with the idea that art is for everyone,” they said.\"Several<\/p>\n

TBH Studio in Ballarat features local emerging artists.\u00a0 (ABC News: Matilda Prelec\u00a0)<\/p>\n

“I thought it would be really cool if you could exhibit colouring images, and then people could colour them in while they look at them.”<\/p>\n

Interactive art<\/p>\n

Memento Mori: Unleashed is on show at TBH Studio in Ballarat.<\/p>\n

Artist and gallery co-founder Toni Louise said they and fellow co-founders Brittany Wallmeyer and Holly Would were drawn to hosting Savage’s exhibition for its interactive aspect.<\/p>\n

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TBH studio is an art collective space. (ABC News: Matilda Prelec)<\/p>\n

“These are the things we want to see,” Louise said.<\/p>\n

“It’s the idea of taking it away from fine art in that you are able to interact with it and draw on it, which is an interesting concept.”\"a<\/p>\n

Memento Mori: Unleashed exhibition had 262 markers to be used. (ABC News: Matilda Prelec)<\/p>\n

Savage’s colouring book is pinned to a wall near a case full of different coloured markers, which people are encouraged to use to colour in the artworks.<\/p>\n

Those who visit the exhibition are encouraged to pick some colours and colour in parts of whichever picture they choose.<\/p>\n

Louise said accessibility was a significant factor in the design of the exhibit.<\/p>\n

“Some of [the pages] have to be really low, and some of them needed to be up a bit higher so that kids and people in wheelchairs could be a part of it as well,” they said.<\/p>\n

“Heaps of people have been coming in [and] pretty much most people that come in will sit and colour.<\/p>\n

“People have been loving it.”<\/p>\n

Art is for everyone\"colourful<\/p>\n

Artist Xander Savage’s favourite page is the Siamese Skeletons.\u00a0 (ABC News: Matilda Prelec)<\/p>\n

The colouring book is filled with a blend of human anatomical and floral imagery, which Savage said was partly inspired by their work as an emergency department nurse.<\/p>\n

“I’ve always been fascinated with anatomy, so obviously my work goes into that quite a lot,” Savage said.<\/p>\n

For the artist, it has been “fun to see how it has progressed” over the weeks the exhibition has been open.<\/p>\n

But regardless of how the art looks by the end, the exhibition has already achieved its goal.<\/p>\n

“Everyone can come in, everyone can contribute and just have fun with it,” Savage said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is not every day that you can walk into an art exhibition and become the artist. But…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11480,4624,64,63,49927,363998,134,15940,110191,363999,364001,364000],"class_list":["post-763147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-art","tag-artist","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-ballarat","tag-colouring","tag-entertainment","tag-exhibition","tag-interactive","tag-tbh-studio","tag-toni-louise","tag-xander-savage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}