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the Garden Path EXPLORING THE COMPLEX RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HUMANITY AND NATURE Tony Adams Ruth Allen Don Barrett Shawn Begley Judith Ben-Meir Jodi Blokkeerus Chris Bold Russell Brazier Mark Cowie Mat de Moiser Robert Delves Sean Diamond Rowan S Douglas Andy Dudok Ursula Dutkiewicz Lesley Ens Susan Fell-Mclean Exhibiting Artists Monica Finch Tanja George Louise Harper Christopher Headley Liz Henderson William Holt Rudi Jass Gaby Jung Ash Keating Stone Lee Angela Macdougall Fleur McArthur Darren McGinn Marianne Midelburg Leanne Mooney Carlo Pagoda Flossie Peitsch Loretta Quinn Anne Ronjat Fiona Ruttelle Julie Shiels Roh Singh Vipoo Srivilasa Jennyfer Stratman Jill Symes Ashley Turner Jos Van Hulsen Robert Waghorn Cyrus, Wai Kuen Tang Michael Walsh David Waters Dawn Whitehand Lih-Qun Wong Curator Ken Wong T hanks to Tania Blackwell, Hobsons Bay City Council Julie Collins, Contemporary Sculptors Association Sharyn Dawson, City of Port Phillip Katarina Persic, Toyota Australia C atalogue Editing & Prepress Watch Arts (watcharts.com.au) G raphic Design Sandra Kiriacos IMAGES FRONT COVER main image Lih-Qun Wong, When there was time to dream (detail), mixed media 2007, 20x50x60cm; Christopher Headley, Fall (detail) mixed media 2007, dimensions variable. INSIDE COVER Russell Brazier, The Liberticide Force (funerary object) (detail), mixed media 2007, 31.5x11.5x56cm. THIS PAGE Monica Finch, The Gateway (detail), clay & steel 2006, 167x55x55cm. FACING PAGE: Loretta Quinn Simulacra in Landscape (detail), aluminium & duco 2003, 3 x 140x30x30cm.
the Garden Path Ken Wong is the Director of Watch Arts, a Melbourne based contemporary arts consultancy. He has worked in the fine arts industry for over ten years in both commercial and community arts, curating and managing a host of projects including gallery and outdoor sculpture exhibitions. Ken Wong CURATOR This is the third annual sculpture exhibition for the Toyota Community Spirit Gallery, this year featuring indoor and outdoor works by fifty Victorian based artists. The aim of the exhibition is to provide opportunity to both emerging and established artists, showcasing the diversity and excellence of sculpture practice in Victoria. Our program continues to develop and the launch of this years show will also see the announcement of the winner of the second annual Toyota Community Spirit Artist Travel Award. The Garden Path is an exhibition that through the works of the participating artists, explores the relationship between humanity and nature, in many ways traversing the development of that relationship throughout history and into contemporary times. Our relationship to nature has always been complex, and the works not only explore how we interact with and utilise natural resources and the environment, but also how we interact with and relate to our own nature and each other. As a species, we are arguably the most successful to ever have lived on Planet Earth. We have developed knowledge and technology that has given us unprecedented control over our environment and a lifestyle that would seem to be the envy of past civilizations. What it seems we have failed to realise on this path to technological development however, is that the natural world has it’s own complex relationships with us. These relationships exist as a delicate balance that must remain in harmony if they are to continue to provide a stable and plentiful environment that is capable of nurturing and sustaining life. An understanding that we need to co-exist with our environment is something that was central to the philosophy of many ancient indigenous societies, but it is a knowledge that until recently has been largely lost or ignored. With the evidence around global warming and our diminishing resources becoming more and more apparent, it is time we as a species re-thought the path we are on. In our rush to control nature and provide more and more material wealth, we have walked away from the motion of wisdom and succumbed to our own greed and the promise of an easy life. Maybe the real challenge, the real struggle is now to come to terms with our own nature; and find way of living in the world that allows us to step forward but leave behind a footprint light enough to sustain the generations to come. Welcome to the Garden Path. 03
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