Marrickville Open Studio Trail (MOST) was a mainly DIY tour program listing 45 artist-run initiatives and galleries on Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 March. It was presented by Marrickville Council as part of Art Month Sydney 2014.
Above: Vicki White, Tinpot Studio, St Peters.

In 2012 the British artist Robert Montgomery (in a work called Echoes of Voices in the High Towers) wrote some text for about 20 advertising billboards around Berlin and the old Tempelhof Airport. The subject of one of them was about place and memory and contained this line in white capitals:
<THIS IS WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH CITIES WHEN YOU LEARN THEM LIKE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS>
A picture of this billboard appears in this blog in 2 or 3 posts, suggesting I guess, that for me, it keeps hitting the right note. I like the idea of learning cities. Apart from the pleasure of looking at the artwork, I’m sure this is the appeal of programs like MOST: walk, look at buildings, check out shops, eat in a different cafe, ride a less familiar train line, see where people work, see what they make, talk to them about why they do it.

Jody Graham, May Street Studios, St Peters.

Jody Graham’s studio.

Jody Graham’s studio.

Vicki White, Tinpot Studio, Edith Street, St Peters.

Catherine White, Tinpot Studio

Jewellery by Catherine White

Bag by Catherine White. (Textile designer unknown).

Eric Lobbecke, Tinpot Studio.

Squarepeg Studios, Junction Street, Marrickville.

Squarepeg Studios.

Squarepeg Studios.

Matina Bourmas, Airspace Projects, Junction Street, Marrickville.
Matina Bourmas, Icy Pole, 2014.

Airspace Projects, Dawn-Joy Leong, Doodle Dreams, 2013.

Airspace Projects, Paula Dawson, Hyper object: Homeland, 2013.

Airspace Projects

SNO, Marrickville Road, Marrickville.
Susie Idiens, Passage, 2014

Susie Idiens, Passage, 2014

Susie Idiens, Passage, 2014

SNO, Kelley Stapleton, Two lines and a jump rope, 2013.

SNO, Sophia Egarchos, Step into You, 2014.

SNO, workroom.

SNO workroom; Kelly Stapleton talking to MOST visitor.

SNO, workroom.

SNO, street entry.

Tinpot Studio, street entry.

Tortuga Studios, backyard.

Stone Villa Studios, nice blank wall.

Must be doing something right.
Marrickville Pork Roll, Illawarra Road, Marrickville.