The HIDDEN Satellite Exhibition featured behind-the-scenes developments of the artworks in HIDDEN Rookwood Sculptures. Just as satellites orbit around the Earth to aid in communication, the HIDDEN Satellite Exhibition was a short distance away from Rookwood and it shared additional information, ideas, insights and the working processes from twenty-one of the HIDDEN 2022 artists, as they developed their sculptures and short films for exhibition at Rookwood Cemetery.
1. Tina Fox
Photos: previous large public rope crochet sculptures, Dolly and Rapunzel, which were unravelled, and the rope recycled to be crocheted into Distress Signal
Photos: work-in-progress
Material example: crocheted cotton rope
Photo: Distress Signal, (crocheted cotton rope), installed in Rookwood’s 1940s American Store building for HIDDEN Rookwood Sculptures 2022.
Listen to Tina Fox talk about her work at HIDDEN Rookwood Sculptures 2022
2. Priscilla Bourne
Drawings: Night & Day - studies i, ii, iii, iv, ink and pastel on paper
Photos: Night & Day sculptures, (polystyrene and acrylic paint), installed at Rookwood for HIDDEN Rookwood Sculptures 2022.
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3. Karen Golland
Photo: Your one wild and precious life, (artificial flowers and wire), installed at Rookwood for HIDDEN Rookwood Sculptures 2022.
Mary Oliver poem, The Summer Day. Karen borrowed the last line of this poem for the title of her sculptural installation, ‘your one wild and precious life’
Photo: Your one wild and precious life on Kamilaroi Highway
Photo: Your one wild and precious life at Walgett
Photo: Your one wild and precious life on Barwon River
Photo: Your one wild and precious life at Hill End
Photo: Your one wild and precious life at Brewarrina
Material example: artificial flowers
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4. Cybele Cox
Marquette: The Red Shoes, glazed ceramic
Photo: The Red Shoes Vanitas, (glazed ceramic), installed in front of Rookwood’s Elephant House (heritage Victorian-era rest house) for HIDDEN Rookwood Sculptures 2022.
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5. Clare Nicholson
Marquette: Butterfly Effect, plastic, metal and monster clay
Sketchbook with working drawings and illustrated notes for Butterfly Effect
Photo: work-in-progress in the studio
Photos: planning drawings and studies
Photo: Butterfly Effect, (earthenware, steel and concrete), installed at Rookwood for HIDDEN Rookwood Sculptures 2022.
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6. Chris Dolman
Sculpture: Only Passing Through, steel, ceramic, stained glass
Drawing: Only Passing Through, initial proposal drawing
Listen to Chris Dolman talk about his work, Many Parts Make a Whole installed at Rookwood for HIDDEN Rookwood Sculptures 2022
7. Eduardo Wolfe-Alegria
Photos: work-in-progress drawings and planning
Photos: Opening Ceremony, (wood, rooks, plywood, plaster, polymer, polyurethane, fabric, acrylic paint, resin, epoxy, aluminium, steel and faux fur), installed inside Rookwood’s Elephant House (heritage Victorian-era rest house) for HIDDEN Rookwood Sculptures 2022.
Material example: internal structure. Plywood, rocks and wire.
Material example: internal structures and work-in-progress, plywood, rocks, wire, plaster, polymer, polyurethane, fabric, resin, epoxy and faux fur.
Listen to Eduardo Wolfe-Alegria talk about his work at HIDDEN Rookwood Sculptures 2022
8. Mark Booth
Photo: Tumulus (earth, ultra-flat enamel paint and polymer emulsion) installed at Rookwood for HIDDEN Rookwood Sculptures 2022.
Photos: work-in-progress, mould making, casting and painting
Sculpture: Tumulus, earth, ultra-flat enamel paint and polymer emulsion.
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9. Stevie Fieldsend
Photos: Still (once trees), burnt telegraph poles, installed at Rookwood for HIDDEN Rookwood Sculptures 2022.
Material example: split burnt telegraph pole stump
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10. Pamela Leung
Photos: Work-in-progress in the studio
Marquette: Silence, timber and paint
Photo: SILENCE, (timber and paint) installed at Rookwood for HIDDEN Rookwood Sculptures 2022.
Video: Voice For The Voiceless, single channel video, created and edited by Pamela Leung
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11. Lachlan Warner
Marquette: Reading for the Living and for the Dead, painted cardboard
Photo: Reading for the Living and for the Dead (reflective film on aluminium, wooden furniture, growing and dying flowers) installed at Rookwood for HIDDEN Rookwood Sculptures 2022.
Planning drawings, site photos and example of reflective film
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12. Whimbrel Wilson
Photos and drawings: research and work-in-progress on tracing paper
Remnants i & ii, dye sublimation on brushed aluminium, edition of 3
Photos: original chimney after the bushfire
Photo: Hearth (pine, formply, glue and nails) installed at Rookwood for HIDDEN Rookwood Sculptures 2022.
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13. Jacqui Malins
Examples of working process: drawings on film and photos
Video: Spires, single channel with audio, 02:29 minutes
Find out more about Jacqui Malins work for HIDDEN Rookwood Films
14. Suzanne Davey
Sculpture: The Contortionist, bamboo, dried flower, thread, textile, clay, roots
Material examples: textiles, terracotta clay, plants and soil
Photo: Catch me, I'm falling (plants, soil, perlite, textiles, shock cord, terracotta clay, steel and timber) installed at Rookwood for HIDDEN Rookwood Sculptures 2022.
Photos: work-in-progress in the studio
Drawings: working drawings, pencil on paper
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15. Alan Tulloch
Example: dry screen print of Louisa Dawson with powdered Rookwood soil on paper
Material example: powdered Rookwood soil on paper
Example: screen with dry print, powdered Rookwood soil on paper
Example: dry screen print of Regent Honeyeater
Screen for dry printing decorative boarder
Photo: Vigil (screen-print, powered Rookwood soil and sealer on Rookwood concrete block) installed at Rookwood for HIDDEN Rookwood Sculptures 2022.
Photos: work-in-progress and details
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16. Jayanto Tan
Photo: And Then, Pai Ti Kong (A praying The Heaven God), ceramic installation amongst tree roots and old sandstone paving at Rookwood for for HIDDEN Rookwood Sculptures 2022.
Poster: Ceramic Fortune Cookies Workshop, The Granville Centre
Video: Ceramic Fortune Cookies Workshop, 2022. Filmed and produced by Hon Sze Fergus Chan. Workshop participants: Kristy and Summer Gordon; Erika and Peter Tabach; Stella and Jack Fitzpatrick; Samuel, Anita and Winston Lo; Cindy and Elizabeth Wu; Maria, Aina and Carol Tran; Patti Gough; Diamando Koutsellis; Poppy Fu and Courtney Burke. This documentary shares Jayanto Tan’s community workshop at The Granville Centre were 200+ of the ceramic fortune cookies were made, thanks to the partnership between HIDDEN Rookwood Sculptures and Cumberland City Council.
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17. Anne Zahalka
Material example: printed adhesive vinyl and gold paint
Photos: work-in-progress and planning
Photos: installing May their memory be a blessing on Rookwood granite training graves with printed adhesive vinyl and stones.
Video: time-lapse video of work-in-progress, with Vivien and Dennis Altman, Jane Becker, Ella Dreyfus, Juno Gemes, Su Goldfish, Jeanie Kable (née Zahalka), Julie Robb, Monica Robinson, Alisa and Thommy Sharon, Sue and Sandy Saxon, Leslie Solar, Naomi and Anita Ullmann; who contributed to this work in commemoration of their families.
Material examples: writing on polished granite and pebbles
Folder of research notes and development of the project
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18. Leisa Sage
Photos: Your embrace is my fondest memory (cyanotype prints on cotton, timber, metal, polyester and polyurethane) installed at Rookwood for for HIDDEN Rookwood Sculptures 2022. Photographer: Rhiannon Hopley - RH Photography & Design
Material examples: cyanotype prints on cotton and text embroidery experiments
Photos: work-in-progress in the studio and installing at Rookwood
Material examples: cyanotype prints on cotton offcuts
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19. Kathie Najar
Drawings: planning to scale
Material examples: hand-painted tiles
Photo: Ode to Joy (marine ply, acrylic mirror, hand painted ceramic tiles and enamel paint) installed at Rookwood for for HIDDEN Rookwood Sculptures 2022.
Drawings and research material
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20. Philippa Hagon
Photo: The Residents - Act #3 - Full House (common personal, domestic, industrial and reclaimed readymade objects and fragments) installed at Rookwood for HIDDEN Rookwood Sculptures 2022.
Material examples: found broken concrete sculptures, old phone, fabric, cardboard, synthetic hair, and rusted steel.
Drawings: pencil on paper, proposal drawings
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21. Danica I. J. Knezevic
Video: The longest time since I have seen you, single channel with audio, 04:06 minutes
Props: bucket and mop
Photos: stills from video
Find out more about Danica I. J. Knezevic’s work for HIDDEN Rookwood Films
HIDDEN Satellite Exhibition
Date/Time: 17 September to 8 October 2022, Monday to Saturday 11am-4pm
Location: The McGlade Gallery, ACU Strathfield, 25a Barker Road Strathfield
Curated by Kath Fries.
The HIDDEN Satellite Exhibition has been made possible by the partnership between HIDDEN Rookwood Sculptures and The McGlade Gallery, ACU Strathfield.
Thanks to Tracey Clement, Diane Merrilees, Chris Jones, Poppy Fu, Courtney Bourke, Damien Nicolls and Carly Armstrong for their assistance with this exhibition.
