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		Melbourne Art Fair Foundation is delighted to announce that two Australian artists have been selected for the Melbourne Art Fair 2008 Artist Commissions: David Griggs and Peter Hennessey. In 2008 Melbourne Art Fair Foundation commissioned two prominent Australian artists to create large-scale works for Melbourne Art Fair. David Griggs’ Frog boy’s dissertation into a new karaoke cult, a full size circus tent was gifted to Queensland Art Gallery, and Peter Hennessey’s My Humvee (inversion therapy), a 6 metre high upturned recreation of the military vehicle, was gifted to The University of Queensland Art Museum. In 2006 Melbourne Art Fair Foundation commissioned New Zealand artist Michael Parekowhai to create Cosmo, an 8 x 5 metre monumental inflatable rabbit sculpture. Positioned under the dome of the Royal Exhibition Building during the Fair, the Foundation is proud to advise that the work has subsequently been gifted to the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. The objective of the Melbourne Art Fair Foundation Artist Commissions is to provide a significant opportunity to a living artist to realise a large-scale work for Melbourne Art Fair.