Aqua-librium outdoor installations


Kath Fries, Strain, 2011, pantyhose, weeds, potting mix, water-saving crystals and heritage structures in Primrose Park, Cremorne.  

As part of the Aqua-librium exhibition, 9 - 18 December 2011, I created an intervention installation on the heritage concrete cylindrical tanks, redolent from the 1890's sewage works. I used pantyhose as a contrasting texture that stretched across the concrete to lead viewers around the structures and support the hanging gardens of local weeds transplanted from around the area. The pantyhose linked back to the site's initial use as North Sydney's first sewage works in its suggestiveness of human skin and underwear.

Kath Fries, Strain, 2011, pantyhose, weeds, potting mix, water-saving crystals and heritage structures in Primrose Park, Cremorne. 

Kath Fries, Strain, 2011, pantyhose, weeds, potting mix, water-saving crystals and heritage structures in Primrose Park, Cremorne.

Kath Fries, Strain, 2011, pantyhose, weeds, potting mix, waters-saving crystals and heritage structures in  Primrose Park, Cremorne.

Kath Fries, Strain, 2011, pantyhose, weeds, potting mix, water-saving crystals and heritage structures in Primrose Park, Cremorne.

Kath Fries, Strain, 2011, pantyhose, weeds, potting mix, water-saving crystals and heritage structures in Primrose Park, Cremorne.

Kath Fries, Strain, 2011, pantyhose, weeds, potting mix, water-saving crystals and heritage structures in Primrose Park, Cremorne.

Kath Fries, Strain, 2011, pantyhose, weeds, potting mix, water saving crystals and heritage structures in Primrose Park, Cremorne.

Kath Fries, Strain, 2011, pantyhose, weeds, potting mix, water saving crystals and heritage structures in Primrose Park, Cremorne. 

Kath Fries, Strain, 2011, pantyhose, weeds, potting mix, water saving crystals and heritage structures in Primrose Park, Cremorne.

Kath Fries, Strain, 2011, pantyhose, weeds, potting mix, water saving crystals and heritage structures in Primrose Park, Cremorne.

Kath Fries, Strain, 2011, pantyhose, weeds, potting mix, water saving crystals and heritage structures in Primrose Park, Cremorne.