I am Curating the Redbanks Rust & Found Art Installation, and while it it is not yet drawing in hundreds of visitors, I have high hopes it will be bringing in visitors soon. An Art Installation without visitors is a sad thing, except of course, the Installation has hundreds of cars driving past it every single day!
Every now and then I put out the sign, and get on with various curational tasks, making it all bigger and better!
So that is the sign, and while it is a little awkward to carry, it is a fine exercise to carry it from where it is put away, and back again, once my stint as the Curator is over, with perhaps more items put out on display!
This Art Installation has over 750 individual items, most of them ‘rusty’ bits and pieces, ‘found’ mostly by me, but sometimes by my husband. This idea is reaching out to people I’ve told about it and I’m thrilled to have been offered, and then accepted items to consider for inclusion.
This has led to some intriguing things, and I’m thrilled to have such a great range of different items of different kinds! There’s a chicken, that has attracted the interested of many, including me, I love Chickie Chook, and I have ideas about this one, with a children’s book in the future!
There’s Chickie Chook having a rest and thinking about adventures to come!
I have so many thoughts about where this children’s book may go, and putting on my business woman hat, I’m excited about using both that books, and Chickie Chook herself to help ‘sell’ this Art Installation where she lives, and reclines!
That chair may not be made of metal, but there are certainly metal bits and pieces that go to keeping it all together and while they may not be rusty yet, I suspect there will be rust happening soon enough …
There are items much smaller than Chickie Chook, such as beer bottle caps (lots and lots of them!) and there are bigger items, such as an exercise bike. And in the top photograph, there is that yellow and black sign, that I found one day going for a walk.
It was lying on the side of the road, lying flat on the ground, with weeds growing all around it! I was surprised, but knew what I had to do. I collected the item, and after contacting the relevant auttorities, who didn’t want it back, I then happily put it on display!
This Installation is taking up my interest, and my time, in great ways, and I am so looking forward to showing it all off and telling visitors all about it. There are many contexts involved, recycling, repurposing, reimagine, as well as road safety, when I consider the accidents that may be avoided because of the items taken off the road where motorists may swerve around them!
That won’t happen now because I’ve taken them from the road and put them on display as part of the Redbanks Rust and Fund Art Installation!
If you’re interested in seeing this in, contact me, and a visit can be arranged. email: kittycordo@gmail.com
Carolyn Cordon - Creative 