CATALOGUE 2021 ARTWORKS
2021 Brunswick Nature Sculpture Walk.
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A River Flow - Sounds of the Brunswick Heads River
Artist: Conrad Hamill
Title: A River Flow - Sounds of the Brunswick Heads River
Year: 2021
Material: sound installation
A River Flow follows a day in the life of the Brunswick Heads River. Throughout the soundscape, the river converses with local wildlife, birds soaring majestically in effortless circles above, the winds, the ocean mouth, and the pulse of the Brunswick Heads village - the life of the river deriving purpose from it's source and the lives it nurtures. A dance between stillness and the movement of an ever-wavering tide, the work aims to connect listeners to the sounds of their natural environment through surfacing harmonies, rhythms and melodies that often go unnoticed.
FISH
Artist: Allen Horstmanhof
Title: FISH 1-4
Year: 2021
Materials: mixed media
The increased acidity of water around coral reefs causing the destruction of the polyps in a process known as bleaching is well chronicled. I make no judgement call on that issue. But this fact began my journey down a path of speculation about all sentient beings remaining blithely unaware of the forces of change around them and carrying on as usual as things deteriorate. In this series of surreal sculptures I chose coral fish, real and imaginary, as a metaphor to illustrate the much broader point.
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Bloom
Artist: Byron Youth and Phil Relf
Artwork Title: Bloom
Media: Cane, tissue paper and LED lighting
Description: Lantern of Bloom made in Collaboration with Phil Relf and Byron Girls Project BYS
The Brunswick Nature Sculpture Walk were fortunate to receive a CREATE NSW, grant. IKARA Celebratory Events with Byron Girls youth group created a large lantern Bloom through a series of workshops.
In keeping with IKARA’s ethos of community participation, it is essential that the designs and construction of the lanterns be done through public consultation and workshops, so as to create a greater sense of ownership as well as passing on skills within the community.
Various designs were presented at the workshops, reflecting the natural world,
This work is Not For Sale
A WOVEN STORY - Walking Through the Landscape
Title: A WOVEN STORY - WALKING THROUGH THE LANDSCAPE
Year: 2014
Materials: Spinefex Grasses natural dyes
A WOVEN STORY weaving together hope, love and joy for our future generations
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Crackers-
Artist: Andrew Cullen
Title: Crackers
Materials: Timber
Dimensions: 5M x 2.5M x 2.5M Weight: 200kg
Often maligned as a nuisance in our urban and rural environments, the Sulphur Crested cockatoo retorts with a heartfelt chorus of laughter. Boisterous and demanding, this is the type of bird that takes what it needs. A joyous bird that thrives in company, this iconic Australian bird is the embodiment of the gregarious Australian character.
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Tide and Time
Artist: Alison Allcock
Title: Tide and Time
Year: 2021
Media: performance
With this work Alison invites you to consider the unstoppable march of time, the forces of the natural world, and our fragile existence within it.
Our tidal zone is a place to reflect on the proverb Time and tide wait for no man (or woman), urging us to seize the moment and reminding us that if we miss the tide an opportunity is lost.
We can’t turn back the tide but we can manage human impact on climate before rising sea levels wash away all marks of human existence. The time for procrastination and political interest is over.
Tree Guard
Title: Tree Guard
Date: 2021
Materials: Flora, wild clay, rope, all foraged/salvaged from my home.
Dimensions: Three pieces, various sizes, total size 3m Ht x 4m D x 3m W
I weave tree guards to protect saplings from wallaby’s and my whipper snipper. Painted in wild clay from my home makes them visible in the long grass. The work reflects my involvement in forest restoration, habitat conservation, syntropic agroforestry, earth building, bush crafting.
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This Way Home
Artist: Jess Poulsen
Title: This Way Home
Year: 2021
Materials: local flora and wild clay, foraged from my home.
Dimensions: various dimensions, total area, 5m diameter, 1.5m Ht
Small dwellings for humans and other wild creatures. Calling the four directions and their elements to point the way home. The work reflects on ritual, earth building, habitat restoration, bushcrafting, storytelling, community.
This work is Not For Sale
Pneumatophores
Title: Pneumatophores
Year: 2021
Materials: Ceramic pit fired
Artist Statement
Living by the river one becomes drawn into the rhythms of the tides. Whilst submerged in its cool waters I observe the riverbanks, the plants and the living species that reside amongst them.
These tides wash in and out and reveal the common grey mangrove snuggled along the edges. Their roots known as ‘Pneumatophores’ grow vertically upwards, obtaining oxygen whilst often constantly submerged under water.
Their main function is respiration.
Mangrove roots collect the silt and sediment that tides carry in and rivers carry out towards the sea. By holding the soil in place, the trees stabilize shorelines against erosion maintaining the health of the river system.
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The Mob
Artist: John Walters
Title: The Mob
Year: 2021
Materials: Chicken Wire
The Mob is part of a continuing series of wallaby installations I have created for outdoor events.
In this piece I am using the wallaby as a metaphor for this festival, a gathering of the like minded, celebrating this wonderful event.
Wallabies are primarily a solitary animal and are widely distributed across Australia, just like the artists and visitors to this festival. However some species are social, and sometimes come together in mobs of up to 50.
In these trying times my wallabies come together, hopefully like the artists and guests here, after a three year absence, to celebrate and bring some joy to the festivities.
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Dance Your Balls Off
Title: Dance Your Balls Off
Media: Performance
How about some playful, cheeky retro fun? This Space Hoppers performance art is inspired by childhood joy and the thrill of being ambushed by street theatre. This is an energetic and bright, interactive moving installation born from memories of the 1970s. This will bring joy, delight and intrigue across the generations.
The artist, Kelly, has many special childhood memories around the little beach and the river in Brunswick Heads. Kelly’s cousin had a Space Hopper in the 70s and she always wanted one. Finally, in 2021 Kelly shares her collection of Space Hoppers in her favourite place in the world.
This work is Not For Sale. However the artist is available for performance hire. Please contact us with any enquiries.
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Collaborate with Nature
Artist: Shona Wilson
Title: Collaborate with Nature - Workshop
Year: 2021
I have been facilitating these Ephemeral Art workshops for the past 7 years since I developed the idea from my studio practice, which has engaged with natural found materials for the past 25 years.
LOST WORLDS' SACRUM
Title: LOST WORLDS' SACRUM
Year: 2021
Materials: 3D Printed ABS and Acrylic Coating
STUDIO KITE in conjunction with the Eromanga Natural History Museum.
Studio Kite is an art services company working in the Byron Bay Hinterlands specialising in the weird and wonderful. Eromanga Museum commissioned Studio Kite to build a life-sized Titanosaur skeleton. This sculpture is a replica of a Titanosaur's sacrum. The remains were discovered in 2004 on a tributary of the famous inland river system, Cooper Creek, in the Cooper/Eromanga Basin. The Titanosaur is a plant-eating (herbivorous) sauropod dinosaur, living approximately 95-98 million years ago: Cenomanian Epoch, mid-Cretaceous Period. It is believed to have been 30 metres long and 6.5 metres high (ground to hip). This Titanosaur represents a new dinosaur species and is in the top ten largest dinosaurs in the world. The complete skeleton will be on display at the new wing of the Eromanga Natural History Museum.
REEF-lection
Artist: Amelia Batchelor
Title: REEF-lection
Materials: repurposed plastic objects
This installation is a collection of sculptural elements made of ordinary, everyday
items. With over 10 years of developing ideas and creating recycled artworks for exhibition,
the design and construction of this REEF-lection sculpture began with many hundreds of hours researching, collecting and experimenting with the raw form PLASTIC. In doing so, I have learnt much about the devastating effects on our earths oceans, and in turn have drastically reduced my own consumption.
This work is designed to excite, educate and hopefully provide people a space to reflect on
their behaviour and relationship to material that they come across in their daily lives. To Re-duce, Re-use and Re-purpose before Re-cycling.
I have experimented with textures, shapes and colours to re-create coral clusters and many of
its ocean creatures, and much like the actual coral reef formations in the ocean, this work is continuing to grow with a purpose.
This artwork is For Sale. POA. Price listed is for complete installation.
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Sitting not Standing
Title: Deck Chairs
Year: 2021
Materials: Salvaged spotted gum Selected and milled by specialist tree salvage group ‘ Big scrub salvage Lismore’ Repurposed 316 grade stainless steel threaded rod ,washers, nuts. Artist made finish including lanolin and gum turps
Dimensions:Installation : group of three chairs , total floor space 3000 mm x 2000 mm
Each chair being approx 1500mm x 1200 mm x 800 mm
Sitting not standing:
Brunswick heads has always been a wonder filled place to visit.
A visit to that meeting of the waters has always let my eyes rest from the everyday visual noise of cars fences houses roads neighbors, pressing engagements and deadlines..
Brunswick heads reminds me to take time ,to slow down, to breath in the fresh ocean air and survey the absolute beauty of natures ensemble.
Inspired by this, ‘Sitting not standing’ is a series of sculptures designed to encourage people to sit and rest for just a little bit longer.
Reimagining the public places we can sit and why.
Recent shifts in public art/ installation ideas reflect broader societal changes could these ,be leading us towards healthier more inclusive public spaces.
The sculpture ‘Sitting not Standing’ attempts to present a refreshed organization of public spaces.A more ergonomic arrangement that may that allow for ‘multiple functions’ like stretching ,playing and lounging.
A large part of this design includes flexibility with mutable forms that can create ,even ,a new sense of community.
Different materials and inclines generate different social realities. They can be ‘solitary or inclusive’ exclusive or inclusive.
While seating is often ‘invisible in the landscape’ often regarded or seen as functional to sitting the sculpture ‘sitting not standing’ encourages appreciation of landscapes as they provide a viewpoint to ‘organize the scope and our scoping strategy
During the 1860s one of the first designed stationary places to sit was made of a mix of iron handles and wooden slats and was just …under relaxing.
Not really comfortable because then the thought was “you should hold your own posture not rely on the chair.
In the 20 th century ,there were experiments about the human figure and the ideal reclining positions exploring free forming ergonomics.
A new horizon was formulated but not guaranteed ,even until now, public seating has been purposefully made uncomfortable in order to deter unwanted elements.
These were known as defensive or deterrent furnishings.
Today with a shift towards more comfortable and relaxing public space, even enabling ‘splaying in public’ a posture once only allowed in the medical or residential spheres.
There is now a potential for new positions in public spaces.
SIREN
Artist: Gogi Dance Collective
Title: Sirens
Year: 2021
Materials: Performance. Recycled plastics, ghost net, fabric, paint, performers
Talitha Maslin and Ashleigh White in association with Gogi Dance Collective brings you SIREN, a seaside dance performance that combines sculpture, rhythmic sound and gutsy movement like nothing you’ve ever seen before. Stumble across a habitat of distorted sea creatures and humans now inhabiting your local sands.
This alluring collaboration between sculptress Mimi Dennett, sounds artist Cr0nes and costume designer Kristie Rowe will pull you closer and mesmerise. SIREN explores our shared concern for the care of our oceans and a desire to create magical moments for audiences to connect back to nature. Beware, the beauty of the unnatural is dangerous.
SIREN is a seaside dance performance that combines wearable sculpture, rhythmic sound and gutsy movement like nothing you’ve ever seen before. Stumble across a habitat of distorted sea creatures and humans now inhabiting your local sands. This unforgettable experience will pull you closer and mesmerise but beware, the beauty of the unnatural is dangerous.
What lies beneath
Artist: Nicole De Mestre
Title: What lies beneath
Year: 2018
Materials: Recycled fan guards and cables ties
Dimensions: HEIGHT 100cm, WIDTH 100cm, LENGTH 100cm
APPROX. WEIGHT- 3 (KG) each
A group of 15 spheres placed on the rocks along foreshore or Torakina.
The microscopic remains of calcified skeletons of countless tiny single-celled algae, deposited on ancient seabeds millions of years ago, bear an uncanny resemblance to discarded fan guards seen in almost every roadside pickup pile.
The ubiquitous cooling fan could be construed as an ironic take on global warming. We use fans to maintain pleasant short-term temperatures in our immediate surroundings, while at the same time we are contributing to higher long-term global temperatures through depletion of our planet’s resources.
Shamefully, all these mass-produced, inexpensive, throwaway fans are destined for landfill, adding to the ever-increasing layers that lie beneath us.
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Fire Performance
Artist: Phil Relf
Title: Fire Performance
Year: 2021
Materials: Rope , Wire , Fire
One of the four basic elements, Fire holds a special place in the imagination.
Fire sculptures or fire drawings, are made with combustible rope, suspended on a metal frame. When lit, they produce fiery outlines that transforms the darkness with flaming images, words or logos. Although fire sculptures require specific safety requirements the design and construction is straight forward and lends itself well to public workshops .
A moving conclusion to a lantern parade or a statement in its own right, fire sculptures can introduce a powerful element into any night time event.
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Sea Turtle Nesting
Artist: Sam Gowing
Title: Sea Turtle Nesting
Year: 2021
Materials: Cane, Paper, Fibreglass matting, Epoxy Resin, Solar Lights
Gold Coast based sculptor, Sam Gowing, is a lover of the ocean and the creatures that reside within it. Along the Eastern Coast in our warmer waters, a number of Sea Turtles breed and nest along our beaches. With Sea Turtle Nesting Sam brings the elegance of these magnificent creatures during their nesting period, capturing the fleeting moment these Sea Turtles make their way into the dunes to find a perfect spot to lay and bury their eggs. Using translucent materials that let the sunlight illuminate their intricate internal structures, Sam also hints at the fragility of these wonderful prehistoric creatures in our world.
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Sandology
Title: Sandology
Year: 2021
Materials: sand
Due to its ephemeral nature, this work is Not For Sale.
Sandology is one of Australia’s longest-running professional sand sculpture companies. Formed in 1998 by master sand sculptor Steve Machell.
There is a certain wonder in seeing life breathed into just sand and water.
It is a real performance art , crowds delight in watching a sand sculpture being made. Ephemeral in nature, it brings joy and makes one appreciate the moment. All the time screaming photo opportunity.
Scraping by
Artist: Nicole De Mestre
Title: Scraping by
Year: 2021
Materials: Each Limpet is made from found and recycled materials - metal, wood, textiles. Details and dimensions for each Limpet are outlined below. Dimensions are measured in cm and ordered Height x Width x Depth
I have collected limpet shells since I was a child, and have never really contemplated their lives or why hundreds of them are regularly washed up on our beaches. Underneath their shells, limpets spend their lives licking and scraping the algae off rocks so it is fitting that these limpets are created from materials found or “scraped” from urban streets. Inspired by the cone shapes of their shells, combined with my love of basketmaking using recycled materials, these mighty limpets were born!
Limpet #1 : rope, wool, beads, security fencing, fruit nets 38x38x9
Limpet #2 : rope, wool, cotton, beads 35x35x10
Limpet #3 : rope, wool, beads, security fencing, raffia 29x29x16
Limpet #4 : rope, wool, curtain ring, wire 25x25x15
Limpet #5 : rope, wool, wire 26x26x17
Limpet #6 : rope, wool, wire, fencing, light shade, beads, fruit nets 37x37x17
Limpet #7 : rope, wool, beads, cane, wire 22x22x17
Limpet #8 : rope, wool, cane, beads 35x35x5
Limpet #9 : rope, wool, beads 20x20x9
Limpet #10 : rope, wool, beads, wire 47x47x10
Limpet #11 : rope, wool, beads, wire, tin lid, rivet 47x47x14
Limpet #12 : rope, wool, washers, fan, cord, beads 59x59x16
Limpet #13 : rope, wool, fan, cord, cane 41x41x18
Limpet #14 : rope, wool, beads, fan, cord 44x44x19
Limpet #15 : rope, wool, washers, fan, cord 80x80x18
Limpet #16 : rope, wool, washers, fan, cord, beads, lace, net 42x42x25
Limpet #17 : rope, wool, beads, lampshade wire, cord 40x40x10
Limpet #18 : rope, wool, washers, fan, cord 24x24x9
Limpet #19 : rope, wool, net, dartboard wire, cord 33x33x13
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Moribund but lit af
Artist: Daniel Clemmett
Title: Moribund but lit af
Materials: Car bonnets, two pack enamel
Those who believe in a universe of infinite size know that anything that can happen, will happen. These low probability events aren't inconceivable, they are inevitable, period.
To misquote Russell Brand, theres about a hundred blokes with as much dosh as the rest of us, that's a bus load of people that run the world. Don't you wanna stop that bus and ask em? "Just where the f@ck are you folks going?"
'There is, in other words, ample evidence that securing state power from the domestic population and securing concentrated private power are the driving forces in policy formation '. Noam Chomsky
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Welcome Friends
Artist: William White
Title: Welcome Friends
Year: 2021
Materials: Timber, pressed P.V.C panels
I made this overhead entrance to symbolize a new start. Walking under my sculpture makes one feel welcome and renewed; as one passes under it it gives hope and love for the sea.
SPONSORED BY - ELDERS REAL ESTATE, BRUNSWICK HEADS
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A Drawing in Space
Artist: Willemina Villari
Title: A Drawing in Space
Year: 2021
Materials: Wire Mesh, Poinciana and Casuarina seedpods, shellac, binding wire
As a drawer and sculptor I create works in 2D and 3D. Inspired by the natural environment, seedpods were collected from underneath Poinciana and Casuarina trees for this work. Highlighting the intrinsic beauty of the sculptural shapes and to draw attention to the cycles in nature where living things come and go.
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A Contemplative Moment
Artist: Craig Raynor
Title: A Contemplative Moment
Year: 2021
Materials: Native Grass hay Soil
Size Variable - life size
By Commission
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Urban Edge
Title: Urban Edge
Year: 2015-2021
Materials: Flat plate steel, square steel tubing, artificial grass.
The notion of 'home' usually conjures a profoundly familiar and uniquely tailored idea, however the flat sentinels of Urban Edge stand as illusions. They resemble a place of human habitation, but as an artificial construct they offer no nourishment, no belonging, no safety and no shelter. In the absence of a home with walls, human beings remain in the environment where 'home' begins and ends for every living thing.
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Coming Up for Air
Artist: Samantha Moss
Title: Coming Up For Air
Materials: Aluminium
These whimsical old exhaust pipes were found rusting away in a paddock, rescued to breath again. The playfulness of these forms interplay with each other and the natural environment like periscopes or air portals out of the earth..... In a time when our environment is under pressure from pollutants we are made to look at what we are releasing into our atmosphere and push for governments to regulate industry to let the planet breath.
Artwork is work is for sale. POA
Surfers Respect Nature
Artist: Nina Hurr
Title: Surfers Respect Nature
Year: 2021
Materials: Posca pen and spray paint on old/recycled surfboards.
Surfers Respect Nature highlights all of the beautiful things around us and how we can respect, preserve and enjoy them. The artworks are cheeky at times but also convey a deep respect for the environment. The artworks bring life to old surfboards that would otherwise be sent to landfill.
The sculpture consists of 5 surfboards with colourful pictures of our natural environment:
Things You Can Do: All the small changes we can make to our lifestyle which help to protect the environment for future generations.
Local Residents: The animals native to this region play an important role in maintaining diversity.
Oceans: All the beautiful creatures living in and around the ocean and what they might be thinking.
Native Plants: When I was young we travelled around Australia camping and identifying native plants. I was responsible for banksias, melaleucas and she-oaks. My sister had eucalyptus, Dad had hakeas and Mum had wildflowers.
Sharks: Each type of shark and their playful personalities.
SPONSORS -
BRUNS SURF SHACK
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Homage to Lost Trees
Title: Homage to Lost Trees
Year: 2021
Materials: Wood and acrylic paint
“They paved paradise, put up a parking lot
They took all the trees put’ em in a tree museum
And they charged the people a dollar an’a half just to seem.
Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you’ve got till its gone”
Joni Mitchel
Every tree has its own unique history and spirit.
These pieces are a homage to all the lost trees in the world.
This work is For Sale. POA
The Forgotten Table
Title: The Forgotten Table
Year: 2021
Materials:wastepaper, white oyster mushroom spawn and burlap.
The Forgotten Table is the first collaborative site-specific installation from artists Emma Anna and Martin Martini an experiment to bring to fruition their shared love of food, poetry, and Australian humour; elements that often come together in communion at the family dining table. This is an offshoot of their work for Belly of the World Mushrooms / bellyoftheworldmushrooms.
This artwork is a site specific installation and is Not For Sale
Sanctum
Artist: Suvira McDonald
Title: Sanctum
Year: 2021
Materials: Repurposed wood, metals, ceramic
Statement: Dedication to the elements
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Buoy oh Buoy
Artist: Community Weave
Title: Buoy oh Buoy
Year: 2021
Materials: Fish nets / rope from W.A Coastline
These ropes and fish nets were collected by Fiona Anderson from 2012-2014 along the Western Australian coast and made their way over land to Brunswick Heads and stored for 3 years in different households and studios in the Byron Shire until Fiona and her family found a place in to settle. They were rediscovered again last year and bought back together through a community weave project for the BNSW. The process led to artists unconsciously making a series of Buoys. Weavers, artists and community collaborated to create the a series of Buoys, from these discarded coastal fishing ropes and nets.
Buoys are anchored floats that serve as a navigation mark, to show reefs or other hazards in the ocean.
SPONSORED BY - FIONA JOHNSON REAL ESTATE
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The Bodhisattva and the Bull
Artist: Allen Horstmanhof
Title: The Bodhisattva and the Bull
Year: 2010-2021
Materials: Welded mild steel, carved styrofoam, cellulose cement, fibreglass resin, enamel paint
This work reflects on the nature of place in the Byron Shire region. The Traditional Custodians of the land had a minimal impact on the countryside. However, when itinerant loggers arrived, they turned forests into open paddocks where cattle and dairy farmers subsequently established themselves. Then, in the 1960s and 70s, people with alternative spiritual beliefs moved into the area. The Bodhisattva and the Bull seeks to explore the philosophical dichotomy between these two disparate recent arrivals and their impact by referencing the Zen Buddhist allegory about taming of the raging inner beast as reflected in the Zen poems on the Ten Stages of Enlightenment.
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Within the Bubble
Artist: Naomi Mikkelsen
Title: Within the Bubble
Year: 2021
Materials: high fired ceramics, rust effects finish, recycled barbed wire.
Within The Bubble explores the reality of recent social issues, connecting us through a shared experience of anxiety and isolation, questioning the concepts of freedom and reminding us of the importance of 'WE' from the local to the global.
Art for me enhances, challenges and raises awareness of our environment, society and its people. As a multi media artist I convey different emotions and ideas with a variety of mediums, always with an underlying consciousness of consumerism, conservation and recycling.
The concept behind this sculpture is to evoke a feeling of connection and contemplation, representing visually the emotions of anxiety and isolation that over the last 12 months we all have experienced.
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Country Colonised
Artist: Sue & Elle Davidson
Title: Country Colonised
Year: 2021
Materials: sand, dirt, sticks, twine, tent pegs
Scale : Installation 3x3mtr
Aboriginal people had an obligation to Country, believing if they cared for her, she would care for them. This system worked successfully for thousands of years.
Colonial planning practices decreed a new order introducing mapping, land grants and individual ownership. Sovereignty was never ceded.
Our artwork is a collaboration between artist Sue Davidson and Balangarra town planner Elle Davidson to invite the viewer to question their participation in this narrative.
This is our story as a mother and daughter, but also our story as a nation. A shared history that we need to come to terms with.
This artwork can be commissioned for an event or ceremony
Goanna Rising
Title: Goanna Rising
Year: 2021
Materials: Found object assemblage. Welded galvanised steel coil frame, salvaged automotive plastics, stainless steel fasteners
Dimensions: 1800mm x 600mm x 560mm (LxWxH)
Goanna Rising
As clock spins faster than moon plays with tide and distance between us & nature becomes increasingly wide as our myth and meaning fall faint under the tik tok of tech.
The times we are headed for spell ruin & wreck but hidden in the undergrowth crawling through our psyche a goanna is rising to protect us from catostrophe existing in our memories in a time of natural lore. if you are quite enough to listen he will rise to the fore.
A creature painted with the markings of lands creation the image of inner strength, healing and spiritual protection. The only being strong enough to take on the serpent an inner spirit we must call on to fight our predicament. Goanna rising to those that feel the call to action that see the need to return to our primal connection to live the stories again that are written on the tide to cast aside the clock, and let the tik tok subside.
https://vimeo.com/user64680485/download/601492584/d7d764fa14
EDGE OF EXTINCTION
Artist: Kassandra Bossell
Title: EDGE OF EXTINCTION
Year:
Materials: spray paint, stencils
The Edge of Extinction is a pavement mural on the street in Brunswick Heads in which each species will be colour coded for extinct, critically endangered and threatened.
Three Australian species went extinct in the last decade and 1800 species are currently on the Australian critically endangered list. In the face of obsolete Australian laws, we witness no current government action to prevent the looming disappearance of hundreds of species.
The artist Kassandra Bossell will use numerous stencils of critically endangered species endemic to NSW and the region of Brunswick Heads specifically. Members of the public will be offered to participate in creating the mural using spray paints and stencils.
Like a murder victim at a crime scene, the trace of each species takes its place as a part of a ‘river’ meandering along the path. Mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, arthropods, fish, molluscs and echinoderms will have their names spelled out on the pavement with chalk.
With strong focus on community engagement in her art practice, Kassandra has a long history of regional art projects and political art production and activism, having contributed signature art works to major political activations, protests and events. These include work with Greenpeace, Amnesty International, Get-Up, Lock the Gate and self-organised street performances using political masks and costumes.
In the face of The Sixth Mass Extinction, the loss of habitat and species causing depleted biodiversity is a shared concern, a part of our local cultural landscape manifested and strengthened by this project. This pavement mural serves to build community by connecting the diverse residents in a creative political action crossing all divides.
The activity will be accessible to children, elders, differently abled and all adults The numerous schools in the local districts will be notified of the times and locations of the project so they may incorporate participation into their learning programs.
As a community-made project, it unites participants around a pressing current issue, lending hope through awareness, embedding memory through engagement and providing a sense of local ownership through communal activism around a common theme. Such collaborative activism will appeal to the public because it focuses on local endangered organisms in nearby environments. By extension, visitors to the area will also learn about the endangered species and the local expression of care for them. This grass roots activity assembles the community through a ground-inscribing engagement to produce a sense of caring for the environment, belonging to it and doing something about it. It provokes questions about Australia’s ongoing involvement in the Climate Emergency.
Created in brightly coloured water-based outdoor paints, the outcome will be an ephemeral community artwork. The Edge of Extinction will become a cultural marker for pedestrians, a memory trigger for those who participated in the project.
Brunswick Heads Nature Reserve
Forty-three threatened animal species have been recorded in and around the reserve. Humpback whales can be seen off the coast during the migration period, and the world's smallest fruit bat called common blossom, which is just 6cm long, can also be seen. Other animals include the grey-headed flying fox, wallum froglet, long-nosed potoroo and koala. Critically endangered loggerhead turtles and vulnerable green turtles sometimes nest on New Brighton Beach. Brunswick Heads Nature Reserve is also home to threatened pied oystercatchers, sooty oystercatchers and beach stone-curlews.
THREATENED SPECIES IN BRUNSWICK HEADS
common blossom fruit bat
grey-headed flying fox
wallum froglet
long-nosed potoroo
koala
pied oystercatchers
sooty oystercatchers
beach stone-curlews
Humpback whales
Green turtles
Echidna
Eastern wallaby
dolphin
This work is Not For Sale.
ADAPT
Artist: Annie Long
Title: ADAPT
Year: 2021
Materials: Galvanised steel
A.D.A.P.T (Agilely Dexterous And Positively Tenacious)
In these unprecedented times, we have been asked to question and change our behaviours with climate change being one major force at play. Being agile, dexterous, and tenacious are some of the traits of adaption needed by all life forms.
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Waiting
Artist: Christina Khumari
Title: Waiting
Year: 2021
Materials: Glass, stainless steel, aluminium
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WAVE TO ME!
Artist: Lance Seadon
Title: WAVE TO ME!
Year: 2021
Materials: Bamboo poles; metal fittings
Dimensions: H 230cm X W 600cm X L 2000cm x W 500kg
WAVE TO ME was created as a distraction from the current times we live in.
The play of light & shadow of the bamboo waveform allows the observer to rest their mind from the worries of life, rising & falling like the ebb & flow of the ocean. Just another attempt to express the strength & versatility of bamboo in its natural form!
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Geo Shrine
Artist: Pamela Lee Brenner
Title: Geo Shrine
Year: 2019
Materials: PET, PVC, wood, paint, LEDs, motion sensors, metal – from found objects
The work is a portrayal of a biome of plastic material with a plastic deity at the epicentre, creating a small universe made of plastic. It is a statement about the pervasiveness of plastic in our life, where it is very useful. Yet, while we worship our deities we are now more aware of a side effect unfolding. The work title also refers to geodesic domes often used for greenhouses, as well as the earth.
This artwork is For Sale. POA
Twinkle Eyes
Artist: St. Johns Primary School
Title: Twinkle Eyes
Year: 2021
Materials: Coloured String and sticks.
Created by students from St Johns Primary School, Mullumbimby
Collaborative effort by students a delightful collection of 'Eye of God' weavings. Coloured wool and random sized support structures come together to create a lively patchwork of individual sculptures, celebrating imagination, determination and community.
Ode to a Windy Day
Artist: Suvira McDonald
Title: Ode to a Windy Day
Year: 2021
Materials: Steel and painted wood.
A quirky & poetically prominent comment on the relevance of renewable energy sources.
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Trolley Folly
Artist: Dave Parker SA Union Street Sculptors
Title: Trolley Folly
Year: 2021
Materials: Steel, plaster, fabric
We are a society of shoppers. We seek satisfaction and comfort when we acquire goods that we often don’t need. More and more frequently people express their frustration with all the STUFF that clutters their lives. Manufacturing, packaging and disposal of this STUFF contribute to wholesale environmental degradation.
Shopping bags are tangible symbols of excess consumption. By making 150 miniature plaster replicas we are drawing attention to the whole dilemma.
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The Bathers
Artist: Willemina Villari
Title: The Bathers
Year:
Materials:
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Dispossessed
Artist: John Walters
Title: Dispossessed
Year: 2020
Materials: Chicken Wire
Dispossessed is a cry for help.
While millions of koalas used to roam in the wild, their populations have plummeted with as few as 43,000 still remaining. These iconic animals have suffered devastating population decline due to human development. Thousands of trees are bulldozed each day across Australia, and our koalas are very quickly heading towards extinction. With critical koala populations still recovering from last summer's devastating fires, they urgently need help. Six thousand koalas were killed in NSW alone during last summer's fires. On a slippery slope even before this, they urgently need help.
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Natures Markings
Title: Natures Markings
Year: 2021
Materials: Reclaimed hardwoods, natural dye- rust vinegar lanolin oil, oxides
Dimensions: Individually they are approx 2500mm tall by 500 x 500 mm and grouped together the dimension is approx 3000mm x 2000mm
- ode to the majestic epiphany of natures making
The hand carved and tool formed surface of the individual yet grouped panels gives a very real and weighted stance. The physical surface is carved, ground ,painted, scored, belted and sanded to reveal the inner growth ring markers and secondary yet real aging of the reclaimed Australian hardwoods.
The strong geometric carving catches sunlight forms shadow and plays with silhouette. A closer inspection reveals time faded timbers, and resins pulled to the surface, subtle color play on the eye hinting at depth of hidden information.
A vehicle with which the artist attempts to share and explore their lived experience of this country using a rudimentary form of physical mind mapping Perhaps a made up language to describe place and perspective. A made up language which beckons investigation of place. This work attempts to share a language and coordinates with which the artist personally catalogues a history of terrain, emotion, and experience.
To map experience , immortalize directions and catalogue questions for further investigation. This tableau, used to precise, remind, and store coordinates to further navigate the artists enquiry of environment. The artist attempts to quantify and document their experiences of the environment by using their own skill with contour, shape and color .Then they attempt to share it with the viewer. Do we need to describe our country using economic rationalities ,politics and a “what it can do for us attitude?”
Or can we yield to a kinder more sympathetic, more human approach.
Clumps
Artist: Suvira McDonald
Title: Clumps
Year: 2021
Materials: Stainless steel and wood in four verses.
Dimensions:
Verse 1: 170cm H $500
Verse 2: 145 cm H $450
Verse 3: 165 cm H $450
Verse 4: 165 cm H $400
PRICE FOR ALL $1650
An installation inspired by reeds at water’s edge.
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Birds of our region
Title: Birds of our region
Year: 2021
Workshop and Bird Walk
Brunswick Cultural Walk
Title: Brunswick Cultural Walk
Year: 2021
Delta Kay, Arakwal Bundjalung woman currently runs Aboriginal cultural tours in the Byron Shire. This project will develop a tour in Brunswick Heads, an area of significance to the Arakwal people. This Cultural Walk will raise awareness of the deep, cultural indigenous history of the area significant to Brunswick Heads.