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The Swarbrick project, coordinated by Artsource, has won the 2008 Excellence Award in the Public Art in Landscape Architecture section.
While it was a team effort Artsource would like to congratulate the Department of Environment
and Conservation and the artists involved.
Both artists have been commissioned to design the 2009 trophy.
Artwork
Brief
Passionate feelings ‘about wilderness’
have been aroused in people through-out history.
The changing perception of ‘wilderness’
and in particular the Walpole Wilderness Area
over time has been the inspiration to the overarching
theme to be interpreted within the Walpole Wilderness
Area. The work is to be sited on between two –
five nodes (one work in several pieces). It will
be installed within the old growth karri forest
among the understorey and forest floor debris
at Swarbrick within the Walpole Wilderness Area
in the south-west of Western Australia. The art
work was to relate to a 60m stainless steel ‘wall
of perception’ interpretation panel that
aligns the trail to the exhibit space.
“Interpreting the changing
perceptions over time and place of the Walpole
Wilderness Area”
Description
Four artworks represent several possible associations
and individual may have based on their experiences,
histories, vocations, passions and cultural perspectives.
The four symbolic artworks are the: Colonial Totem
drawn from hand tools used in the early forest
clearing, a historical window of attached meanings:
proud pioneering heritage; threat to indigenous
species; the harnessing of nature ; the pure hardship
that was part of daily life by pioneers and a
productive vision of the future. The Ghost Feather
pale and translucent it began in reference to
a certain critically endangered species but evolved
to encapsulate a pandemic perception amongst human
communities, a consciousness of loss: 500 Seeds
is an intricate “cut out’ that shows
the geometric ideal that reflects the eternal
nature of Source. This Cornucopia of growth and
generation is reflected in many things in the
natural world. This is a mathematical principle
to maximise the most abundant possibilities. This
principle has been transformed into a large screen.
The perforated material becomes a veil in which
to interpret the forest: The Torus is the ancient
geometric metaphor of unity. The Torus is literally
around all life forms, all atoms and all cosmic
bodies such as planets, stars and galaxies. It
is the primary shape in existence and governs
many aspects of life. The circle of completion,
the zero point reunion with self. It symbolises
the inter-connectedness of all living things.
extracted from
the artists submission and printed with permission
from the artists
Consultant
artsource is working with CALM to develop an artwork
program for the Swarbrick site and is currently
negotiating the commission of a three dimensional
art-work by a Noongar artist. |
