Historically, the gallery space is a place where creativity and culture both mesh and clash. If only the walls could speak their stories…and we could listen. What has been said there and what will be said in the future? Maybe you can actually hear the words pulse and roll to the surface.

Pick ‘G’ words from the list that seem important to you – artists or themes – or think of your own ‘G’ words…

Gaudí             Guggenheim Gender            Globalization            Gluttony      Gauguin            Garbage        Gibberish                    Geiger Counter             Greater Good               Géricault              Grave              Graze             Giacometti                Generate       Generous                 Giggawatts               Give Place     Gilbert and George           Goal               Google           Giotto             Vincent van Gogh               Goya              GST      El Greco           Grosz

Then, please add your ‘G’ words below.

Your chosen words will be composed into a new audio form and reintroduced to the gallery space at this exhibition’s close…..moving  from written words to spoken words to sounded words to sensational soundscape!…..  Come be a part of it!

Soundscape coming soon

The hidden phrase is ‘I am the way, the truth and the life’ but it is a secret….

Sally, do you have any questions or comments I can respond to?

General comment from the public: Was the wool unravelled for Housewarmingthe Onkaparinga Woollen Mills in South Australai before it shut down. This wool came off the ends of blankets after the end tassels were twisted. They were all short lengths of different colours. I used our broken clothes drying rack made into the shape of a house as a frame. I think the car stands look like the supports needed under some houses.

Grace, that is an excellent question….I don’t know! But they also were very helpful to me…some did sound recording, some did computer work, some painted or carried art for me. Everyone cleaned the house for me. Family is hard work but if they are considerate, it can work out so everyone does what they have to do….and still have fun.

Eight people are in my family – six children and 2 parents

I laid out the fence palings [taken from my old yard fence] in an uneven pattern and drew shapes connecting the panels. Then several women from a conference I was leading painted them in the colours they chose. If you line them up a certain way, they will reform the complete pattern. The pattern can from my imagination.

Fencing is made from recycled pence palings

Sasha, I think you are asking about SOUNDPACKING. These are things that I sent to myself from Canada when I got rid of things in my parent’s house. My Dad had made the wooden cassette holders in his workshop. I made it by ‘playing’ with the shapes until it looked like a skyscraper. Then I drew a pattern of how it should look and the gallery staff in Wangaratta put it together from the drawing I sent along. They did a good job.

We rebuild our homes usually copying aspects of where we grew up

Hi Amy,

I do like sewing when I have the time and quiet to think. I don’t like to mend things…like all the pants needing patches on the knees when my boys were little! This green and red cotton was leftover from mending my children’s school uniforms. I used it in my art to try to make good use of it now that I don’t need these colours anymore.

Do the extra items on the chairs in Eight Unseated correspond with particular members of the family or does it reflect the overall experience of being in a large family?
I will forward your blog address to the teachers and they will review the answers in class.  What a lovely touch to have this interaction!

Dear Sally,

The green things on the cahirs represent the partylike atmosphere of living in close quarters with so many people, as you suggest, but I did find most of these things in their wardrobes!