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Eggebert
& Gould
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Visual Art Exhibition by UK artists brings UK botanical collection to Sydney
Private View: 2pm Saturday August 3rd 2002
Opening Hours: 10am to 4pm
Address: The Palm House, Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney,
Mrs Macquaries Road, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia
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based Artists Anne Eggebert and Polly Gould believe
in taking art out of the confines of the gallery and into unexpected
places in order to arouse curiosity and provoke questions. They work
with museums and their archives, botanical gardens and landscapes
to create video, photography and sound installations. The work on
show in Sydney takes botanical illustration and the history of the
scientific explorer as its inspiration to celebrate the artificiality
of the fictional landscapes that occur when continents are crossed
to gather plant species together in a botanical garden. Transplantation includes sound, video and photographic work derived from Eggebert & Gould’s time as first ever Artists-in-Residence at Cambridge University’s 200 year-old Botanic Garden in the UK. Hortus Inconclusus : Sonic Panorama with Radar functions as a sonic map of the garden at Cambridge. It describes the porous boundary of a garden in the urban environment, where sounds of nature combine with urban noise; elements beyond normal perception are heard, like radar echoes of tree roots and the vibrations of forks at work. |
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Detail from Alpine
Archipelago. Click here
to see full size image.
Click here to see more images from Alpine Archipelago
They are presenting a new work Alpine Archipelago made specifically for the Palm House in Sydney. This floor-based photographic montage collaged from over 1,000 photographs of the garden at Cambridge ‘maps’ the landscapes of the UK Alpine display and transplants this to the Palm House in the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. The image begins to take on a life of its own, growing from the orderly miniaturised landscape of the Alpine House with its pots and labels into an irruption of abundance which is transformed into an otherworldy landscape referencing aerial photographs of unfamiliar topograhy.
History
Anne Eggebert and Polly Gould are both lecturers at the internationally
renowned Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. They
began their collaboration in 1999 with a sound installation for Spin at
the British Library. They were recently artists in residence at Hastings
Museum and Art Gallery from September 2001 to February 2002. Between them
they have shown work at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, the Tate Gallery
St Ives, Kettle’s Yard House Museum, Cambridge, Jacksonville Mueseum
of Contemporary Art, Florida, the Schloss Rheydt Museum, Germany and W139
in the Netherlands.
Contact
Gardens’ Visitor Centre RBGS (02) 9231 8125
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