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Maundrell Park
Petersham, NSW |
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2007 we curated this biennial exhibition of public sculpture
and installation on behalf of Marrickville Council,
in a park in Sydney’s Inner West. Cross-pollinations
recalled the history of Maundrell Park as a former plant
nursery and hothouse, bringing together local and far-flung
artists to propagate new perspectives on the ‘nature’
of public space in the city. An artist discussion-picnic
offered audiences the chance to engage more critically
with the works and the ideas they raised.
Works in the exhibition drew upon a variety of artistic
media, including urban detritus, organic matter, domestic
artefacts, sound, and even the park’s own living
weeds. By turns poetic and subversive, all represented
an intervention of sorts, into how we ordinarily move
through and interact with the spaces around us, and
into how we share our cities and their occasional patches
of green.
Exhibiting artists were James Gulliver Hancock, Indonesian
collective TUK, Jane Gillings, NoBody, Greg Shapley,
Brendan Penzer, Elke Wohlfahrt, Rebecca Pearson, Huyen-Trang
Tran, Peter Williamson and ourselves. |
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Huyen-Trang Tran
Dislocated Landscape
Bamboo, glass, water
150 X 150 X 26 cm
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NoBody
WeedyConnection
Plastic info points, printed material, weeds
Dimensions variable
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James Gulliver Hancock
Stabilising the worry
Children’s BMX, wheels, aluminium tubing, steel rods
110 x 350 x 80cm
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Rebecca Pearson
Inside, Outside
Mixed media, found objects
Dimensions variable
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Elke Wohlfahrt
KulturExchange
Beetroots, earth, metal, timber
1.95 × 2.40 × 1.35m
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Jane Gillings
Disgarden
Discarded /unwanted plastic, wire, glue
Dimensions variable
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Tessa Rapaport & Karl Logge
Book Case
Suitcases, plywood, cushions, canvas, books
Dimensions variable
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Tanam Untuk Kehidupan
Main main aja
Discarded paper and plastic packaging
Dimensions variable
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Greg Shapley
Temporal Anomaly
Electronics, crates
36 x 36 x 36cm
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Brendan Penzer
Sculpturthon
Mixed media
Dimensions variable
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Peter Williamson
Cyclops Basket
Virginia creeper, draco tree
45 x 45 x 45cm
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Artist discussion-picnic
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