Container
SKU:
Container
YEAR. 2023
MEDIUM. charcoal on cement fibreboard
DIMENSIONS. 228 x 240cm
EXHIBITION HISTORY.
2023 The Good, Co-Curated by Dr Lee-Anne Hall, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, NSW & Rachel Arndt, Wangaratta Art Gallery NSW/The Condensery – Somerset Regional Art Gallery QLD (National tour with Museums & Galleries of New South Wales 2023-2026)
COLLECTION. Available
"Most of the farms in our area have old shipping containers variously functioning as a kind of rural garage for storing furniture, household goods, spare floorboards, books, old beds, camping gear, farm supplies and things that might be useful or important that don’t belong in the workshop.
My family is the seventh generation on the same property and every household has their own container. To me they represent a holding space for generational knowledge, everything put in there must have been important, even if I no longer have the key to understanding why or what an item is for. They are also space for infinite possibility, if we need something my first port of call is to look in the container. I am always optimistic I will find exactly what I need in the container, especially if I have seen something once or have a memory of it, it must still be here."
YEAR. 2023
MEDIUM. charcoal on cement fibreboard
DIMENSIONS. 228 x 240cm
EXHIBITION HISTORY.
2023 The Good, Co-Curated by Dr Lee-Anne Hall, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, NSW & Rachel Arndt, Wangaratta Art Gallery NSW/The Condensery – Somerset Regional Art Gallery QLD (National tour with Museums & Galleries of New South Wales 2023-2026)
COLLECTION. Available
"Most of the farms in our area have old shipping containers variously functioning as a kind of rural garage for storing furniture, household goods, spare floorboards, books, old beds, camping gear, farm supplies and things that might be useful or important that don’t belong in the workshop.
My family is the seventh generation on the same property and every household has their own container. To me they represent a holding space for generational knowledge, everything put in there must have been important, even if I no longer have the key to understanding why or what an item is for. They are also space for infinite possibility, if we need something my first port of call is to look in the container. I am always optimistic I will find exactly what I need in the container, especially if I have seen something once or have a memory of it, it must still be here."