Audiences of the Hamilton Fringe festival will be allowed a first glimpse and chance to offer feedback on a new web series from two Wintec grads which aims to make comedy from artistic cliches.
Artforme, which co-creator Jono Marshall said was a purposefully pretentious choice of title, will follow five artist characters inspired by personalities he and fellow creator Katie Howchen met during their university years.
"We want the characters to be really relatable so people can say 'I know that person'," Jono said.
These include Carol, a middle-aged eccentric who quits her job to become a dog photographer and Olivia, who works in an art gallery and often finds herself in surreal and awkward situations.
"One of these situations is she's coming to work and there's an art showing, and she puts her bag down and a woman thinks it's an art installation and tries to buy it. She's one of those people who tries to avoid confrontation so she just kind of goes along with it."