Resonance by Sylvia Ross
Posted in 2009 COFA Spring Fair, Exhibition, News on September 8th, 2009
Sylvia Ross, Resonance, 2009, One tonne of coal, 3.2m x 20m.
If you happen by the COFA campus in the next couple of weeks you will see a 20meter long word spelled out with coal on the grass strip outside of the sculpture department. The artwork, which was created by Sylvia Ross, the Head of the School of Art at COFA, is made from one tonne of coal and spells out the word Resonance.
“The artwork is not a political piece regarding the use of coal, its’ more of a prompt for people to think about coal products and waste. Whatever you do has a consequence- it resonates“ explains Ross.
The placement of the artwork is not a matter of chance, because in early Colonial times the grass strip outside the COFA sculpture department was on of the outlets of a waterway called Busby’s Bore.
Busby’s Bore, named after John Busby who in 1826 recommended that the then Lachlan Swamps (now Centennial Park), where Sydney was drawing most of its water from with carts after the Tank Stream became quiet putrid, be delivered to a reservoir at the then Racecourse (today’s Hyde Park) via a bore. The 3.5 kilometre convict built sandstone bore is still underground today, and is protected by a Permanent Conservation Order.
The COFA Campus is open to the public on Saturday the 19th of September for our annual Spring Fair.
Please come down and visit us and check out Resonance.
For more information on how to get to the COFA campus please visit: http://www.cofa.unsw.edu.au/about/location
For more information on the Spring Fair, please visit: http://www.cofa.unsw.edu.au/newsevents/events/event_0298.html
