lefthand text reads: Gail Hastings, installation, 1989; Fergus Armstrong, photograph, 1989
untitled (with magazine)
Specifications
untitled (with magazine) is made of pigmented wax on wood, acrylic on wood, and a fabricated magazine (nb: plinth made to magazine’s measurements). Built components made by Gail Hastings.
The work comprises six components with an overall measurement of at least 2m x 2m of empty space between the corners.
| 07/07/2000 | Gail Hastings: Sculptural Situation 1989–2000, Goddard de Fiddes (cur. David Pestorius), Perth |
| 03/10/1998 | Strolling – the art of arcades, boulevards, barricades, publicity, Heidi Museum of Modern Art (cur. Max Delany), Melbourne |
| 14/07/1989 | Gail Hastings Installation 1989 / Fergus Armstrong Photograph 1989, Store 5, Melbourne |
Bibliography
Clabburn Anna,
‘Three strolling artists lead the way at MOMA’,
The Age,
Wednesday 11 Nov
1998,
p.19.
Excerpt
‘… Hastings invents obscure clues to mystify an ordinary architecture. Her movie directions for secret agents are poetic stage directions for an absurd theatre …’
Delany Max,
Strolling – the art of arcades, boulevards, barricades, publicity,
in Max Delany (ed.),
exhibition catalogue,
Heidi Museum of Modern Art,
Melbourne
1998,
p.27.
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Acknowledgement
I acknowledge the Kulin Nation’s Yaluk-ut Weelam clan of the Boon Wurrung people as custodians of the lands, waterways and skies where I live and work. I pay my respect to their Elders past, present and emerging. I recognise their cultural faithfulness, strength and resilience against the trauma of colonisation. First Peoples’ sovereignty has never been ceded.
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