Merrigong Environmental Sculpture Project
Project Summary
The Five Islands Lookout on Mount Keira, is a site that community consultation identified as both sacred for women and a place of past massacre. The project sought to enact a ‘Healing’ of the site through artistic collaboration and ceremony.
The art work, inspired by the story of the ‘The six daughters of the west wind’, consists of six bronze structures or ‘Gunyas’, cast from twigs collected on the site. The ephemeral quality of the ‘twig-like’ structures refer to a former occupation of the site by the traditional people. The permanency of the Bronze material consolidates Indigenous survival and everlasting connection to place.
Indigenous artist Alison Page collaborated with Tina Lee, a non - indigenous artist to design the work and involved nine local indigenous artists in the project.
This project aimed re-establish Aboriginal connection to the site and to communicate its significance to the wider community.
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Artists Tina Lee and Alison Page
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Detail of Work
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Artists at Launch celebration
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Ceramic tile detail
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