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MREAM is the Maribyrnong River Edge Art Movement, established in 1988 by a co-operative of Western Suburbs of Melbourne artists. MREAM obtained the use of a disused industrial building from the City of Footscray which had been compulsorily acquired as part a proposed urban renewal project on the banks of the Maribyrnong River. The group produced its first guide to studio spaces and [1]

MREAM began working from a building in Moreland Street Footscray in the 1980s, where a vibrant arts community developed around the Footscray Community Arts Centre. When the area began to be gentrified in a common process where artists led the revitalisation of run down and therefore cheap rental areas in inner cities, the organisation was forced out of the building in 2008. They then moved to Pipemakers Park, Maribyrnong, [2] where the group used space in the historic bluestone buildings at Pipemakers' Park Maribyrnong to establish studio and exhibition space. However, these buildings were under lease to Melbourne's Living Museum of the West which had a long term lease from Parks Victoria, and despite an attempt to place their own representatives on the committee of management of the Living Museum in 2011, they were subsequently evicted from the building. [3]

MREAM continues as a loose coalition although was not particularly active in 2012-3, although some exhibitions have been staged under the banner Mream in Exile. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ "Maribyrnong River Edge Art Movement: 1989-90 studio guide". MREAM. 9 December 1989 – via Google Books.
  2. ↑ Maribyrnong Leader MREAM lives the dream 25 FEB 10 @ 05:00AM BY ANTHEA CANNON Archived 2012-11-25 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ Push on for Living Museum of the West Maribyrnong Leader 29 MAR 11 by PAULA MAUD Archived 2012-11-25 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ "Open Studios". Archived from the original on 2012-01-13. Retrieved 2013-06-09.
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