Wind Flowers (2020)

Area: Olympic Oval Precinct
Location: At the intersection of Gilbert Road and River Road

Materials: Fiberglass-reinforced polyester, powder-coated steel, Cobalt Chromite Blue-green spinel, Copper Carbonate, Red Iron Oxide, Chrome Oxide, Yellow Iron Oxide, Black Iron Oxide, Cadium Zinc Sulfite, Festuca ovina, Festuca rubra var. commutata, Lolium perenne, Trifolium repens, Trifolium fragiferum

Program: Civic
Ownership: Civic
Sponsored By: Onni
Also Known As: Wind Flowers

Description of Work

Wind Flowers are a series of 13 flexible objects situated in a sculptural sub-urban landscape. The installation serves as a gateway to Richmond, and suggests this boundary is soft and multiple.

Artist Statement

Wind Flowers asks what it means to ‘arrive’ and to ‘depart’ – either as a resident (leaving and returning home) or as a visitor (arriving at an unfamiliar place and leaving having become familiar). These questions are explored in relation to domesticity, vulnerability, protection and attraction.

Themes of specialization, apprenticeship, intuition and regional specificity of craft are crucial to the exploration of the above questions and manifest in the process of making. The fabrication process is informed by prevalent local industries that supported the boat building, fishing and industrial production that previously defined the geographical landscape of the region. These once prolific industries have been largely replaced by real estate and property development – the very same industries that fund projects like this. Although Wind Flowers is enabled by this funding, it does not take a complacent attitude towards it. A clear hierarchy is established by the apparent fragility and ephemerality of the sculptures in contrast to the eternal natural force of the wind.

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