Laura Wills

Bismania

Bismania is a Bus/Truck series of drawing work developed by Laura Wills during her 2009 Asialink Visual Arts Residency at Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Bismania is the name of a group of ‘bus enthusiasts’ based in Yogyakarta with an active 500-member Facebook group. They meet each week at the major bus terminals to ‘talk bus’.

Wills met members of the group and began an extensive documentation project of the original airbrush paint work on the sides of the old buses.

The collection of images inspires the body of work Bismania and with the help of the Bismania community Wills also developed a series of bus paper craft. In the Festival Centre foyer Wills will be installing a site specific drawing work to display the paper craft works.

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