What is Decent Exposure?

Decent Exposure is an art vending project creating playful encounters with work by artists and makers based in lutruwita/Tasmania.

The idea is to make local art easier for people to stumble across, engage with and buy outside traditional gallery settings.

Decent Exposure creates new opportunities for artists and makers based in lutruwita/Tasmania to be discovered and supported, while adding a little curiosity and surprise to public life.

The project uses a repurposed vending machine as a tiny travelling gallery, with changing collections of small artworks curated to respond to the location, season or event.

Vera is the first Decent Exposure machine. Rather than chips and coke, she’ll vend things like prints, stickers, zines, jewellery, textiles, wearables and other small works that can survive the journey down a vending spiral.

Decent Exposure is created by me, Meg. I’m a Hobart-based designer, interested in the unexpected ways people encounter both public space and the arts. I curate the collections, look after Vera, and develop the relationships that allow Decent Exposure to pop up where you least expect it.