This event will be at 2 to 3pm on the 28th of July 2025, at 1594 Germantown Road REDBANKS South Australia. If you are able to get there, feel free to contact me and I’ll keep a look out for you!
The image above shows a small section of my Art Installation, a very small part of it. But in this section are perhaps thirty or more items of the Redbanks RUST & FOUND Art Intallation, with the entire Installation having more than 700 individual items on display!
The intention with this brief display is to guage interest in it, and to showcase the variety of interesting concepts it touches on. There are definitely recycling aspects, with many of the items on display thrown away as rubbish, and headed for the dump.
To me though, every item can tell as story, about us, about how we feel about our world, and about the commnity we live it. There are concepts of road safety there as well, and the ideas around history too.
But is it Art though? I say yes, and I’d love to hear what other people think about that!
The Redbanks RUST & FOUND Art Installation began as something far more simple than an extensive Art piece with over 700 individual pieces on display, as it is now.
But as they say, from little things big things grow, and yes, they sure have! It all started a couple of years ago, when I began picking up small bits and pieces of metal, usually beer bottle caps, and putting them on the front fence of ‘our place’, which is the home of my husband and I, in Redbanks South Australia.
Redbanks is a small township, in rural SA, in the Adelaide Plains Council area. There is a commnity Hall fallen into disrepair, and there are houses on small blocks, and there are farming land all around. We’ve lived here since 1988, and love our move from suburbia!
And while we love it out in the country, there is not a lot of community feeling in Redbanks, for that you need to go to Mallala, the closest town to our place, or Gawler, which is a good bit bigger than Mallala.
We moved out to the Adelaide Plains to breed pure bred show dogs, but now have moved away from that world, and simply have a pet dog, a Greyhound, Lenny. Lenny is an important part of this story, because many of the found objects found/collected when taking Lenny for a walk, are now on display in this Art Installation!
The creation aspect has come more recently, when someone I’ve been talking with someone about what I was doing, and it became clear to me this was much more than just a fence, with bits and pieces stuck on it, or leant against it! And as the Creation aspect moved along, the ideas regarding what I was doing grew conceptually, and before I knew it, I was an Art Installation Curator, presenting a literature-based viewing and then writing workshop.
And now, to take that aspect further, there is an anthology planned to be published and launched in the new year! The more I think about this project, the more I can see could happen with it, and at the moment, I’m in the process of readying various items from this Art Installation for a viewing at another site during SALA (SA Living Artist) Festival in August this year!
How Exciting is this? Very exciting, is what I say, and I’m loving being the Curator of an Art Installation!
Carolyn Cordon - Creative 