A WEEK ON THE RIVER, 2019 - current

A flake of rust from the barbie at Wanstead reserve, a casuarina seed cone, a Sydney cockle shell, a piece of plastic from the lid of a water bottle. Collected on a series of walks along the river, from Yagoona to Botany Bay, these small silver objects reflect a desire to draw attention to the river and to consider things around us that are easy to overlook. Originally cast as mnemonic tools for a walk on the river in 2019. Each walker took one home to carry on their travels, put on their bookshelf, forget in their pocket or lose down the back of their couch, only to see it again at some point and remember walking along the river.

The original collection of castings has atomised. There are pieces in Shanghai, Prague, Slovenia, lots of places in Australia and better still there are some I have completely lost track of.

These castings were awarded the Cooks River Small Sculpture Prize 2019 and were a part of the Composting Feminisms Reading Group, 2019, the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design 2019, the Shanghai Biennale 2021, the Woolarah Small Sculpture Prize 2021 and the exhibition River Song at Delmar Gallery 2021 and an exhibition at Bankstown Arts Centre 2021. They were developed out of research and studio time in the PhD program at Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney.

photographs by Joshua Morris