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| Kath Fries, Linger installation proposal, 2013, digital image collage |
I've been invited by Venita Poblocki to create a new site-responsive sculptural installation for Mapping Memory, a curated group exhibition at the Incinerator Art Space. My work is titled Linger and will incorporate internal architectural elements of the renovated Walter Burley Griffin Incinerator building and aerial roots from Ficus hillii - Hill's Weeping Fig, growing directly outside the complex. Interestingly this fig tree is native to the rainforests of coastal Queensland, far from the local area. My installation, Linger, will expand on these physical forms to suggest metaphors of memory and connection to place.
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| Kath Fries, Ficus hillii, growing next to the Willoughby Incinerator, 2013, research photograph |
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| Kath Fries, Ficus hillii, growing next to the Willoughby Incinerator, 2013, research photograph |
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| Kath Fries, Ficus hillii, growing next to the Willoughby Incinerator, 2013, research photograph |
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| Kath Fries, Ficus hillii, growing next to the Willoughby Incinerator, 2013, research photograph |
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| Kath Fries, Ficus hillii, growing next to the Willoughby Incinerator, 2013, research photograph |
Over the next two weeks I'll be working in the Incinerator studio space (above the gallery) creating components of my installation. A special rigging system has recently been built for the gallery - you can see it behind the studio window - I'm planning to use it to suspend my installation.
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| Kath Fries, Incinerator studio space with collected of Ficus hillii areial roots, 2013,work in progress photograph |
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| Kath Fries, Incinerator studio space with collected of Ficus hillii areial roots, 2013,work in progress photograph |
Mapping Memory
12 June - 7 July 2013
Incinerator Art Space, 2 Small St, Willoughby
Opening 3pm Saturday 15 June
Places and objects can hold personal and collective memories. These sites form important elements of societies past and present; they establish a history and create a present and inform our future. Through shared meaning, they connect us to one another and form the fabric of our society. In Mapping Memory, nine artists consider where memories are located. They regard the significance of geographical, architectural, spiritual, cultural, material and imaginary sites where these personal and collective memories may reside. The exhibition will include sculpture, painting, etching, prints, site-specific installation, video & sound works by artists Cyrus Tang, Kath Fries, Tessa Zettel & Karl Khoe (Makeshift), Thea Weiss, Tim Bruniges & Sarah Mosca, Megan Cope and Nick Fintan. Curated by Venita Poblocki.
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| Mapping Memory exhibition invitation, Willoughby Incinerator Art Space |
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