This is a tiny section of the Redbanks Rust & Found Art Installation
The Art Installation as in the photo there, actually has well over 750 individual items on display. These usually (but not always) rusty items take in contexts such as reuse, recycling, and reimagining.
More than that, the overall Installation covers ideas about road safety as well, and the more I think about it, the broader the range of possible aspects of life are taken in, in response to what the Art Installation is all about!
I am so much looking forward to when people will be getting in contact, and booking visits to this Experiential site, where they will be in a lovely quiet rural area, with magnificent Eucalyptus trees as well as a fine stand of Pine trees to give shade, in the morning, anyway!
And in those various trees nest and rest many native birds, as well as those know from other countries, and it visitors are luchy they may site some other native fauna, perhaps lizards, or even snakes! How exciting!
When you come and visit the Redbanks Redbanks & Found Art Installalion, you never know what interesting and even exciting things you may see!
Recently I attended a Fringe performance in Gawler South Australia at the Prince Albert Hotel, and even though I had to leave early, I very much enjoyed the part of the act I saw, and I’m told the rest of it was funny too.
So, I’m glad I was able to see Marc Ryan and the second comedian, and super thrilled to have been able to step up in the stage with them and do a short piece of my own stand up comedian act!
When I was at school and was asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, Art Installation Curator was certainly not a career would have professed to be interested in, that’s for sure!
If someone had suggested it as a possibility, I would have had no idea of what it was! And to be honest, up until recently I’d never heard of such a thing, and would never have thought it might be a thing I may do.
But life does odd things at times, and here I am, the Curator of the Redbanks Rust and Found Art Installation! It may be a little visited site, this Art Installation, but there is certainly much traffic driving past it every day. And if I were to actually promote it and have a sign up indicating what it is that traffic is driving past, that may assist in visitor numbers …
In the photo below are the goodies found along the road when I stopped on my way to Gawler to check out something I’d noticed previously on an earlier drive to Gawler from my place. They’re not on display yet, but oh my, they will be sometime soon!
So yes, I’m enjoying the gatherng of interesting (to me anyway!) items and then thinking about them, and putting them on display!
The title of Art Installation Curator feels so much like my kind of thing now, and remembering my love of collecting unicorns, perhaps this is actually something in my DNA. I certainly remember when we had to sell off my father’s things from his big shed attached to his stables, when he had to move to an aged care facility.
He had things going back a long way back in time … and my mother had her own issues regarding keeping things too as my brother and I discovered when we had to organize all of her items that made up her estate when she passed away earlier this year. My mother’s items were kept in a much neater way than my father’s items had been, but there were still many old items in her cupboards and drawers that had to be disposed of, or kept as appropriate in the clearing out of her things, from her home.
So with my parents being fond of keeping things, is it any wonder I’m so much enjoying the finding and keeping of these various metal things, most of which are iron and rusty?! I’m not hiding my interest (or was that obsession?), with all of the items on display at this Art Installation!
With more than 700 individual items as a part of this display, I’m hardly in a position to criticize anyone who likes to hold onto things from their past, am I? I would actually love to have these items counted to find how close I am to the correct number.
There may be a way of having students come along and do this for me. I’ll look into that after this Festive season is over, and students are back at their relevants schools.I am far more of a words kind of person, rather than a numbers person!
So that will take some time before it will happen, but you can bet my attention will continue to be snared by rusty treasures! Curator, collector, crazy? Maybe all three! But I’m enjoying myself, and that’s important in life, to do the things you enjoy doing!
Carolyn Cordon - Creative 