Anne Kay

Saying Goodbye to that Room, 1995

Materials: Mattress ticking, zipper, 1/3 ton of soil, white pigment, acrylic binder

​

Part of an artist-initiated group public exhibition called The Viaduct Project, which used the arches of the railway viaduct that crosses Federal Park, Annandale as it's site. The exhibition was curated by Rose Ann McGreevey and Barbara Halnan. The intention of this work was to juxtapose the  nineteenth century domestic ornamental features with the early twentieth century functional technological design of the viaduct, and to raise questions of aesthetic codes, assumptions about gender and the division between public and private space. The decorative pattern came from rubbings from s ceiling cornice. The 'mattress' sculpture was filled with soil that I brought into the space.