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Kath Fries, Meander, 2012, phragmites (native wetland grass),
Art in the Wetlands, Wonga Wetlands Albury NSW |
Meander was one of six site-specfic installations commissioned by Albury City for Wonga Wetlands, for the two week outdoor exhibition 'Art in the Wetlands'. Meander invites visitors to follow a river-like labyrinthine path between contours of phragmites (a native wetland grass that grow abundantly in the Wonga Wetlands). Truckloads of phragmites have recently been harvested from this area and relocated along the banks of the Murray River in an attempt to stem the endemic erosion.
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Kath Fries, Meander, 2012, phragmites (native wetland grass),
Art in the Wetlands, Wonga Wetlands Albury NSW |
Over the two weeks of the exhibition the grass outside of the phragmites-river-bank-path demarkations will grow, and a track would be temporally worn into the ground within by the impact of people walking along the route. At the conclusion of the exhibition, Meander will simply be mown back into the grass, and for a few days the lines of the installation will still be visible where the underlying lawn will have changed colour due to lack of sunlight beneath the phragmites.
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Kath Fries, Meander, 2012, phragmites (native wetland grass),
Art in the Wetlands, Wonga Wetlands Albury NSW |
Meander continues my exploration of materiality, spatiality and archetypical narratives relating to transience of existence and fragility of life. My site-sensitive processes and use of found materials infers a poetic commentary about human struggles with nature and that which is naturally uncontrollable in our lives.
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Kath Fries, Meander, 2012, phragmites (native wetland grass),
Art in the Wetlands, Wonga Wetlands Albury NSW |
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Kath Fries, Meander, 2012, phragmites (native wetland grass),
Art in the Wetlands, Wonga Wetlands Albury NSW |
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Kath Fries, Meander, 2012, phragmites (native wetland grass),
Art in the Wetlands, Wonga Wetlands Albury NSW |
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Kath Fries, Meander, 2012, phragmites (native wetland grass),
Art in the Wetlands, Wonga Wetlands Albury NSW |
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Kath Fries, Meander, 2012, phragmites (native wetland grass),
Art in the Wetlands, Wonga Wetlands Albury NSW |
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Kath Fries, Meander, 2012, phragmites (native wetland grass),
Art in the Wetlands, Wonga Wetlands Albury NSW |
Thank you to Tom Arnold - Albury City Urban and Public Art Officer; John Hawkins and his team at Wonga Wetlands; and my fellow exhibiting artists Michael Shiell, Natalie Ward, Jane Gillings, Bronwyn Cossor, Vernon Bartlett; for their support of and interest in my Meander installation.
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