I have recently returned from installing my 2016 work looking in | looking out at Winmark, as part of their sculpture park. Winmark is a Winery located near Broke in the Upper Hunter Valley of New South Wales. It features beautifully tended vineyards, an award winning cellar door, an indoor art gallery, a coffee cart, accommodation ...and throughout its beautiful grounds set beneath a wild mountain, is an ever-growing sculpture park. Winmark is open most days, find out more HERE
Karin Adcock, Winmark's founder, invited me to install a work at Winmark; after visiting the property and being introduced to a possible site I proposed the work looking in | looking out. The work had originally been installed floated on a lake as part of the the 2016 UWS Sculpture Award and Exhibition, for quite a while I had wanted to install it on dry land. The install was celebrated with one of Winmark's quarterly seasonal High Tea events.
To read an extended story about looking in | looking out and view images of it at Winmark visit my web site HERE
looking in | looking out aluminum, automotive paint, stainless steel, 450 x 700 x 1000 cm (approx)
looking towards the west over some of the Winmark Vineyards
Sculpture in the Gardens Wollongong 2025
I have been asked to create a public engagement project as Sculptor in Residence during Sculpture in the Gardens Wollongong 2025; I have chosen to continue the ghost tree project started during Sculpture in the Gardens in 2021 to write another chapter... I have always felt that this project would be an ongoing project, it was a project that changed me and many visitors too. The 2025 chapter will be called translucence : grief tells you what you love.
The ribbons, stitched with pale pink thread by participants in the 2021 event as a remembrance of the losses and acknowledgement of the grief of the 2020 east coast fires, will be part of the new chapter in 2025; during translucence I will invite a response to these messages of grief that acknowledges our love for life and all its beings and to celebrate the capacity of life to regenerate. I will be inviting visitors to stitch ribbons using a vibrant green with a declaration of love for the creatures of the world: "frog love"!
Sculpture in the Gardens @ the Wollongong Botanic Gardens dates: 1—30 April 2025
See video of the original ghost tree project HERE
