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Breathing Space
18 September– 25 November, 2009
Hawkesbury Regional Art Gallery
Windsor, NSW |
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fruit of nine days as Artists-in-Residence at The
Lock-Up Cultural Centre in Newcastle, in pursuit
of edible botanic possibilities to satisfy the needs
of the colony in the event of a future food crisis –
chiefly among these ‘muloobin’, said to
refer to a plant once eaten by local Indigenous peoples
(and from which is derived the original name of the
area, ‘Muloobinba’ – purportedly meaning
place of the edible sea fern). Arriving at Hawkesbury
Regional Art Gallery – some days journey down
the Hawkesbury River – a portable greenhouse (emerging
from a modified traveller’s trunk) transported
specimens of likely ferns gleaned around Newcastle’s
coastal CBD, bearing also our own working diagrams and
research notes. The greenhouse packs down and travels
inside the trunk by sea (or rail) as required.
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Recollections of the edible sea fern
2009
Traveller’s case, timber, glass, soil, found fern
specimens, acrylic paint
83 x 48 x 90 cm |
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(detail) |
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in transit |
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