based exhibition RELICS: A New World Rises opens at Canberra Museum and Gallery
The 'RELICS: A New World Rises' exhibition at the Canberra Museum and Gallery features intricate Lego dioramas depicting a future where humans have abandoned Earth. Artists Jackson Harvey and Alex Towler created the installations using primarily salvaged and second-hand materials.
Why it matters
The exhibition offers a creative commentary on consumerism and environmental legacy through the lens of popular culture.
Jackson Harvey and Alex Towler are the artists behind a new exhibition using Lego and relics as their mediums. ( ABC News: Simon Beardsell )
A new exhibition has opened at the Canberra Museum and Gallery, depicting Lego people living in tiny worlds inside iconic items, from cars to pianos to jukeboxes.
The artists say the exhibition is about "doing something differently".
RELICS: A New World Rises is open until 2027.
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It's the year 2130, humans have left Earth and Lego minifigures have moved into the belongings we've left behind.
At least that's how friends Jackson Harvey and Alex Towler imagined the future, while they spent years creating a whimsical, wonder-filled world for their exhibition RELICS: A New World Rises .
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