Arboreal is my most recent work. A temporary, site-specfic, intervention installation in Rumsey Rose Garden, Parramatta Park; being exhibited as part of Ruminations, an art walk I curated featuring the work of several local artists and one interstate performer. Ruminations is open to the public from sunrise to sunset, seven days a week until 11 November 2012.
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| Kath Fries, Arboreal, 2012, fabric, imitation gold leaf, charcoal, bamboo wrapped around the two central pear trees growing in Rumsey Rose Garden, Parramatta Park |
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| Kath Fries, Arboreal, 2012, fabric, imitation gold leaf, charcoal, bamboo wrapped around the two central pear trees growing in Rumsey Rose Garden, Parramatta Park |
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| Kath Fries, Arboreal, 2012, fabric, imitation gold leaf, charcoal, bamboo wrapped around the two central pear trees growing in Rumsey Rose Garden, Parramatta Park |
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| Kath Fries, Arboreal, 2012, fabric, imitation gold leaf, charcoal, bamboo wrapped around the two central pear trees growing in Rumsey Rose Garden, Parramatta Park |
Arboreal is an intervention installation
wrapping the rose garden’s central pear trees in strips of fabric, like injured
human limbs. Earlier this year, one of these trees was naturally splitting in
half, but now the tree has been bolted together - a process similar to
inserting surgical pins in a human broken bone. Arboreal extends
this anthropomorphic narrative to playfully suggest alchemic healing with
glimpses of gold leaf and charcoal residue in the bandages, and a bamboo crutch
supporting a lower bound branch. This work has been inspired by the traditional horticultural practices I observed in Japan on a research trip last year,
thanks to The Japan Foundation’s New Artist Award.
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