My Kylie collection: extended remix 2003 is the culmination of Melbourne-based artist Kathy Temin’s ongoing fascination with Kylie Minogue and her rise from next door neighbour to pop princess.   

My Kylie collection is a Kylie fan’s dream. The archive contains everything you ever wanted to know about Kylie, from the days when Minogue played feisty Charlene on the Australian television soap opera Neighbours to her rise to pop superstar.

“Kathy Temin, famous for her soft sculptures and fluffy environments, has created a simulated version of a 1970s pink girl’s bedroom as a shrine to someone who represented success to her as a teenager growing up in suburban Melbourne,” said Gallery Director Greg Burke.

The work contains almost every magazine cover and story ever printed about Kylie. They’re obsessively pinned on the walls among 1970s glam mirrored display cabinets which can be viewed from fake fur covered benches or shag pile rugs on which to lie down and dream. 

“The collection pushes the boundaries of hero-worship and pop-adulation, fandom and fetishisation to an art form. Temin remixes popular culture similar to Andy Warhol, engaging us with her obsession and making us passengers in her dream,” said Mr Burke.

Since it was first presented in 2001 the work has grown as Temin adds new items chronicling Minogue’s stellar gearshift into super stardom. My Kylie collection: extended remix 2003 is part of the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery’s Extended Play: art remixing music running at the New Plymouth gallery from 22 February to 4 May 2003.

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