Introduction
One of Chapel Street’s highlight events since 2004 is the Museum
of Particularly Bad Art Exhibition, (MOPBA), and the
Itchiball Prize. The success of this exhibition was due to the
coming together of Streets Ahead, Windsor’s Traders, the local
community, under the umbrella of the MOPBA
Committee. This event raised significant funds for three
charities operating within the Stonnington area.
Itchiball Entries from past years can be seen
here.
This year the event is returning to the exhibition space at
Chapel off Chapel 12 Little Chapel Street Prahran from the 3rd
to 12th of October.
The opening night will be Friday 3rd October 6pm till 8pm
Once again we are calling for entries for the coveted Itchiball
Prize.
Entry details and form are available here.
About MOPBA
A story about MOBA
(Museum of Bad Art, Boston), appeared on ABC TV’s Foreign
Correspondent in the early 90’s. This show had a profound
effect on Helen Round at the time she was establishing Fat Helen’s
Bric a Brac shop, specializing in the kitsch, inane and
tasteless.
Whilst hitting the op shop, garage sale and market trails, she
came across Australian examples of Bad Art, and this inspired a
lifetime dedication to the pursuit and preservation of excellence
in mediocrity.
This collection started as an idea in 1993 and became a reality
in 1996, when a portrait of Scott Baio was rescued from the
Redland’s Op Shop in High St, Windsor. The shop is now gone but
Scott lives on along with about 200 other original pieces of
Art! Since Scott was liberated, Helen has set out to uncover
and amass these hysterical historical artefacts.
The collection has been exhibited on several occasions, and with
the support of Streets
Ahead, the collection can be seen again along with the many new
additions, all worthy of winning the “Itchiball
Prize” (sic)! | 