This exhibition of outsider artists is being held at Doggett Street studios. The Monte Lupo  team has been hard at work exploring their imaginations to create new artworks. The exhibition explores what these artists feel when alone, scared, tired or vunerable, the results of this exploration range, from the torments of a jail cell to the fear of terrorism, aliens in space and monsters in the back garden.
Knowing our own fears helped to inspire the artist.

Sean Davenport and some of his work

Media release

Monte Lupo's nine artists with a disability will give you a delightful fright with their Monsters, Mayhem & Moments in Between exhibition opening
6-9pm on Friday, 15 June 2007 at the Doggett Street Studio in Newstead.

Monsters, Mayhem & Moments in Between exhibition will feature nine Monte Lupo disabled artists' work and occupy one of six spaces int eh Doggett Street Studio on the night. Monte Lupo provides a career path for people with disabilities who wish to be gainfully employed in an area encouraging creativity and artistic expression.

Multicap business services manager Fiona Haynes said Monte Lupo was established in 1991 to provide supported employment services for people with a disability through its gift shop and studio, packaging services, and centre of creative arts.

"Our disabled artists featured in the Monsters, Mayhem and Moments in Between exhibition Peter Hughes, Sean Davenport, Elizabeth Duffy, Jarrod Wendt, Brett Patzwood, Johanna Ford, Rachel Wright, Saki Yamaoka, and Brooke Redenius have won a number of awards and been involved in several other exhibitions," Ms Haynes said.

"Peter Hughes for example, whose work also features on the invitation, exhibited last year at Transformation in Washington and at the Freight Gallery in Perth at Easter this year," she said.

Monte Lupo now has over 30 employees. Multicap chief executive officer Joanne Jessop said the artists at Monte Lupo are encouraged to develop their own very distinct, individual, naive style that allows one to truly see the infinite expanse of human expression.

"The Monte Lupo machine operates through individual commitment to a team effort of creative collaboration, allowing the artists to be involved form producing a piece to loading on the truck for exhibits, to selling in our gift shop," she said.

"It's an opportunity for people with disabilities to contribute as a whole and exhibitions such as Monsters, Mayhem & Moments in Between helps break down barriers within the arts community," Ms Jessop said.

Jarrod Wendt and some of his art works