Umbrella Artist Alison McDonald selected for Sculpture by the Sea 2013
09/10/2013Umbrella member and artist, Alison McDonald was selected to exhibit in significant, international art event. I mention this on the blog because her artworks were born at Umbrella Studio and continue to evolve.
Those of you fortunate to have seen Flow installed and hanging from the east side of the Umbrella building, witnessed a major undertaking by a tenuous and visionary artist. Flow is a site specific installation that had its first incarnation in 2011, created from over 20,000 plastic bottle caps cascading over the side of the Umbrella Studio Building. This massive artwork was reworked to be located floating in the iconic water fountain on the Strand, as part of the 2011 Strand Ephemera. Again in 2012 Flow was recontextualized for McDonald’s bold, solo exhibition; Urban Legacy at Pinnacles Regional Gallery.
Flow will be reborn again in a dramatic setting with now 30,000 plastic lids. It is featuring in the 2013 Sculpture by the Sea event from 23 October- 11 November. The spectacular Bondi to Tamarama coastal walk is transformed into a 2km long temporary sculpture park featuring over 100 sculptures from Australian and International artists. Applications were assessed by a prestigious curatorial panel and Umbrella congratulates Alison for her achievement, representing Townsville and regional artists in North Queensland. For those who will travel down to the sculpture exhibition Flow will be situated just below Marks Park on a sandstone cliff that overhangs a walkway and has a spectacular view of Bondi Beach.
Also as part of the sculptural celebration artists are asked to create works for Sculpture Inside, a massive sculpture exhibition from the artists involved, which is held in a large marquee onsite at Bondi. For this Alison created two new works, a small perpspex globe with International lids and a marquette size Flow titled Trickle. Trickle is created from 2,000 individually hand cast lids from larger recycled lids then grided onto wire (recycled phone wire) which can takes on a wavy like form that represents the tumultuous time we humans are having with plastics.
Way to go Alison, will try to get down to see it!
Fantastic work Alison, Congratulations.