split posts
Commissioned by Landcom with public art curators Artscape, this series of twenty works will be installed as part of the Sanctuary development within the Newcastle LGA. The 7 metre high sculptures draw from the lines of fences that overlaid patterns on this landscape.
This area was covered in ironbark and spotted gum forest, remnants of which remain. The posts for the original stock fences would have been split out of ironbark logs cut right on the site. It’s tough stuff that old ironbark, and I’d guess that some of the old posts I found on the site would have been around more than a hundred years.
Split Posts honours those trees and the usefulness of the products they yielded up to play their part in the settlement of Australia.
Development of the work has taken place over a twelve month period and we anticipate completion later in 2011. As well as working with Landcom and Artscape, through this period I’ve collaborated extensively with Terras Landscape Architects and also drawn on the design and documentation resources of Marcelo Zavala-Baeza.
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