ROAR Member Project Brief: Lucky Duck

For our next Member Project Brief, we’re inviting ROAR members to create a mini exhibition for an audience of one.

Instead of making work intended to appeal to a wide audience, this project asks you to focus entirely on one specific person and create work especially for them. Your chosen person can be anyone - someone you know, a celebrity, a historical figure, a fictional character, someone living, dead, real, or imagined. The important thing is that the work feels intentionally made with that person in mind.

Think about what they would connect with emotionally, visually, or conceptually. What references, colours, materials, symbols, or ideas would feel meaningful to them? What might they understand in the work that others would miss?

Your exhibition can take any form, whether that’s a single artwork, a small series, an installation, sculpture, painting, text, sound, performance, or something more experimental. Your individual, micro exhibitions will fill the Garage Gallery to create something really unique.

This project is about flipping the usual idea of exhibitions. Rather than trying to make work for everyone, we want to explore what happens when work is created for one very specific audience but viewed by many.

The exhibition will take place in August 2026, so now is the time to get those initial ideas flowing, experimenting and working out what your approach is going to be, and more importantly, who it’s going to be for?

This opportunity is open to all ROAR members, and we encourage experimentation, humour, sincerity, niche references, and unusual ideas.