HIDDEN Rookwood Sculpture Walk showcases history, culture and love
HIDDEN, an outdoor sculpture exhibition that takes place amongst the gardens and graves in one of the oldest sections of Rookwood Cemetery, opens on Saturday.
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Newtown artist Lisa Tolcher is honouring the heroic women buried at Rookwood Cemetery with an enormous, pink timber archway as part of the HIDDEN Rookwood Sculpture Walk.
Tolcher pays homage to the women who paved the way for future generations in her work, In Recognition, one of 56 sculptures on show at Rookwood Cemetery from this Saturday.
“The names of the heroic women buried at Rookwood Cemetery are engraved into a timber log pathway that leads us to the arch,” the multidisciplinary artist said.
Tolcher said the work, part of the Pink Log Projects celebrating the strength of women through adversity, was inspired by the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.
Tolcher is one of 11 inner west artists with work on show at the free, public outdoor sculpture walk.
Burwood’s Lachlan Warner, a self-confessed “stumbling Buddhist” invites us to help him make clay figures, dress them or inscribe a name or note in his Earth Store Bodhisattvas.
Summer Hill’s Anney Bounpraseuth’s Ashes to Ashes, Stardust to Stardust … responds to the passing of her mother and the search for her urn.
“The urns available did not reflect her beauty, personality or the way she lived her life,” Bounpraseuth said.
While Wareemba’s Nerine Martini worked with adult students studying English to produce Survival Strategies, a metaphor for migration and displacement.
Sadly, Martini lost her battle with breast cancer in April before discovering her submission to HIDDEN had been successful.
HIDDEN runs until October 7.
MORE INNER WEST ARTISTS
• Two artists, Ro Murray from Newtown and Mandy Burgess from Russell Lea, have collaborated to address causes of man-made climate change.
• Nuha Saad from Lilyfield engages with the decorative and the architectural, honouring her beloved aunt who recently passed away, and now rests at Rookwood.
• Two artists, Cameron Stanton and Rachel Lafferty, have created an interactive mechanical structure as a metaphor for the journey of grief.
• Louise Morgan from Glebe explores the form of river as a reflection of the tree roots, and the human vascular system.
• Sylvia Griffin from Balmain references death and the process of grief with a series of unravelling jumpers, standing in for their absent owners.
