Nicole Voevodin-Cash

Event date: 1 Mar 2010 - 4 Jul 2010

 

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Exhibit:  Caloundra Regional Gallery, May 26-July 4

Green Art Floor Talk - June 29th, 10.30-12.30

Author Tim Morrell describes Nicole Voevodin-Cash current practice as,

“An art practice that investigates ‘interaction as a sculptural strategy’,creating work that is ‘shaped by behaviour’ through participation and the use of ‘living’ materials.”

Nicole believes the most astute strategies for devising successful public art is to produce works that aren’t recognised as art by the public. Freed from the barriers of reverence or distain that some people automatically create when looking at art, works like this can be assimilated more directly into everyday life. Many of the interesting and pleasing things that we encounter in public spaces are put there by artists, but not necessarily as an alternative to putting them in a gallery. Nicole Voevodin-Cash is strongly aware of the need for public art to be a response to its environment rather than sculpture that happens to be located somewhere other than a space dedicated to art.

Growing a Memory

‘Growing a Memory’ will use ‘living’ materials to create a significant community and sculptural project in Eumundi that will continually grow and evolve.

One project will take the form of a Greenwall housing a solar and water farm; the other will create a memorial space and be driven by the imagery of the symbolic ‘rising sun’ emblem, where it is proposed to “grow” an arbour and/or a playground using a fig tree as ‘living’ material. The site is characterized by the large amount of FIG trees planted over the years as memorials to lost soldiers of the community and to provide shade, create a parkland/green feel and create a lasting and living memory. This project will consolidate all of these aspirations in to an artistic and architectural feature.

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