Events

Wandering the Wollondilly

Ten artists, including COFA graduate Giselle Stanborough and COFA graduate Alison Clouston, were asked to respond to the Waterworks Museum and/or the Wollondilly River site by creating sculptural work that could embrace any material: traditional or
ephemeral; utilise sound; make an installation or create a site specific performance.
Each artist has made a work expressing their relationship between their art and this particular landscape.
The idea for this sculpture exhibition came from a Goulburn resident, Gillian Webber, in 2007. She asked if the gallery could organise a much needed sculpture exhibition somewhere along the Wollondilly River in Goulburn.

Alison Clouston and Boyd have collaborated on their work where white bird mesh protects a corridor of indigenous plantings and miniature solar powered Pump-houses emitting the sounds of the Waterworks steam pumps, ghostly echoes of the fossil fuel age, but hope for environmental restoration.

Giselle Stanborough has created a unique performance piece for the site which confronts the viewer in the largely misunderstood medium of performance art. The work is a movement piece that utilizes the cyclic rhythm of the Goulburn steam engine itself to merge and splice pictorial representations of women in the landscape at the end of the nineteenth century with contemporary Western representations of women in nature, as it explores the relationship between progress and nostalgia.

Artists include: Ross Bannister, Miriam Bos, Boyd, Alison Clouston, Steven Holland, Julie Krone, Tracy Luff, Sebastian Meijbaum, Giselle Stanborough, Britta Stenmans and The Lieder Theatre performers

What: Wandering the Wollondilly
Where: Goulburn Historic Waterworks Museum
When: 8 August – 1 November 2009