2024

Ethel Turner wrote Seven Little Australians in 1893. The story is one of excitement and adventure as seven children explore the Australian bush. This shapes a significant part of their identity and connection to place. The sculpture Ethel mixes the experience of flung shoes and swinging plaits with stringybark bark and bentwood chair. It takes the joy and frivolity of Frangonard’s The Swing and tempers it against the wildness of the Australian landscape.

Materials: Antique chair, Stringybark bark (collected from fallen timber on private property at Gariwerd/Grampians. twine