Sky, Mirror & Fence Lines Project

‘sky, mirror & fence lines project’ by Meredith Frances Lynch

Meredith Frances Lynch was an artist in residence at Bundanon in October 2008. While living and working at Bundanon, Lynch worked on a temporal environment based installation. Lynch installed stage one of this project on site at the Bundanon property on Sunday 18 October. She is now returning to install stage 2 on Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 January 2010 and will be on hand to discuss her work with visitors. The fence lines project is a strategic incursion between studio for gallery practice and environment art: merging the two through research based and conceptual output, documentation that is capable of immediate placement as pseudo gallery art, and a major site-specific environment installation. This temporal environment installation will consist of mirror pieces cut to the specific dimension of the top surface of fence posts on the Bundanon property. Bundanon boasts an enormous property with vast rolling landscapes and magnificent open sky lines. Being located on the south coast of NSW in the Shoalhaven region the skyscape is an ever changing spectre of chromatic range from white-yellow through the scale of blues, purples, greys during the days and evenings with magnificent mists at sunrise and fluorescent oranges, pinks, blues and whites at sun set. The amount of space can be overwhelming to any visitor to the property and this environment installation aims to further merge the naturally occurring green landscape with the blue skyscape. An introduction of mirrors along fence lines at Bundanon will lower the sky into the green landscape, allowing for a poetics in a contemporary creation of environment installation art. The ‘sky, mirror, & fence lines project’ is an artwork that can exist in a direct relationship with the world, due to the nature of the environment based installation at Bundanon. The process is as much the finished work ready for audience interaction as the final environment specific temporal installation. For further information, visit Meredith's blog