The New Quotidian arts practice is a collective by current Queensland College of Art & Design, Griffith University students that aims to take back the power residing in the everyday to replace habitual consumerism with radical micro-actions that resist the dominant economic growth narrative. The artists deliberately employ slow quotidian practices like walking and using public transport to explore urban environments littered with consumer waste. In turn, found objects provide inspiration, imagery and materiality for the practice.
Appropriating lurid colours and imagery of the advertising industry, the Excess All Areas exhibition highlights capitalism's total colonisation of social life and generates an uncomfortable response to the familiarity of manipulative images that pervade the everyday