These Songs of Freedom

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Artist: Sue Davidson

Title: These Songs of Freedom  

Year: 2024

Materials: Philodendron sheathes, wire cages

Dimensions: 20 Individual pieces 40cm x 20cm each, installed in a 10m2 space

I grew up next to a national park on Sydney’s north shore, and I remember my friend’s mother captured and sold wild birds. She kept a cockatoo in a cage and when it screeched the other birds would come and investigate and she would lure them into her cages. It made me sad and I wish now that I had had the courage to set them free. I don’t know how many birds lost their freedom, or how many she caught, but the cruel and heartless nature of this act stayed with me. 

I dedicate this work to those caged birds and animals born in captivity, who have never known untethered joy, and to all those captured birds and animals who will never again taste freedom.


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​Sue Davidson attained a Bachelor of Visual Art at Southern Cross University and has also completed the long course at Byron School of Art in Mullumbimby. She works as a part time teacher as well as technician at Studio Kite making 3D props, set building and public art. She has an ongoing art practice and works out of her space in Station Street Studios in Mullumbimby. 
We wish to acknowledge and pay respect to the Arakwal people of the Bundjalung Nation,
the traditional custodians of the land​ on which we meet and work.​​
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