Sculpture in the Vineyards

From the North West Frontier of the Central Coast: Wollombi.



Sculpture in the Vineyards

7th October to 7th December, 2006.












Title: Drop
Materials: Beeswax, pond, water plants, water, trees.

Juliet Fowler-Smith puts finishing touches to part of her installation.

"I have made many visits to Cedar Creek over the past months while also working on a model of a small, cupped, human hand cast in beeswax. This is a development on from work made in South Korea for the Nine Dragon Heads International Art symposium in 2005. Ideas to do with vulnerability and needs arose when thinking about responses to the natural environment in this earlier installation.

From these beginnings the work has developed site specifically at Cedar Creek. Scarce water resources, creek plant life (and invasive weeds), the never-ending sensitivity to the weather and rain or no rain, are ideas that I have played with for this work. My particular sensitivity to this site is linked to a lifelong relationship with the Hunter region, and in particular the Williams river valley, Dungog, the site of a proposed dam."

Juliet Fowler Smith
jfs@pacific.net.au

Juliet has been involved with a number of Central Coast art events.She was a Co-director of the Dawn Light Symposium, 2005, worked with Sculpture by the Bay (Gosford Regional Gallery), participated in Eco-poetics, 1998, and Dog Trap Road Biennale, 2000, (Somersby) and “Duck”, 1997, (Mangrove Mountain and Wyong) as a member of Synapse Art Initiatives, and is currently a participant in the Reading Room Project: 0, centred in gosford.