Helen Sanderson (Curator)

Give me a home among the gum trees

The art work is stored in a small wooden traveling crate/box.  The crate/box has six screws that require a Phillips head screwdriver for opening and closing.   The work itself is a simple painted canvas that is hung onto a hook or the gallery hanging system.  The crate has been made so that it can be exhibited with the work…showing the places the crate has been posted from and to.  It can be shown or not according to each gallery director’s discretion, it is not vital to the integrity of the work.  However, it is a significant part of the plan for the In Your Dreams project.   The crate/box could be placed on a plinth below the work, or laid on the floor below the work.  There will be a small amount of padding within the crate/box that could be stored within the crate during the exhibition.  I do not mind if the crate/box is handled during the exhibition by viewers.

Liz Jeneid

Wish List

The narrow strip is hung from a D ring on the back of the top piece of cardboard. It may be necessary to put some blue tac at the bottom as after being wound up in the box it can have a bit of an outward swing!
I have had the box propped up against the floor and wall but it could also come out of the box depending on the space in the gallery.

Bev Jensen

Maiden Voyage

Helen Mueller

Book of the Deep

Place the book against its box on a white plinth or white shelf. Arrange the book and its pages as shown in the image. The book may be handled with clean hands. Gloves make it too difficult to turn the pages. Handling should be very gentle as there is a tendency for the pages to fray with inappropriate touch or a lot of handling. If there are to be very many visitors who are likely to want to touch work, I would prefer the book not to be handled and, if possible, for it to be placed under glass.  Thank you for your care.

Katherine Nix

River of Sleep

• Take box out of bubble wrap.

• Undo leather thong tie.

• Open right drawer (grab gold knob between your fingernails).

• Remove nails for hanging, and rubber band for securing the fold-out concertina panels from drawer.

• Open winged dog drawer and remove concertina poem book and put aside.

• Hold top sides of the box a bit apart and remove the top six panels of the night sky.

• Secure these with the rubber band.

• Position box on the wall and mark nail holes with a pencil. 

• Remove box.  Even up holes by measuring from the floor.  Make holes for nails in wall. 

• Position box over holes and push nails through box into holes.

• Remove rubber band from the night sky panels and put in right hand drawer.

• Fold out the night sky panels and fix into position with nails provided (procedure as per previous step). 

• Right side will need a bit of fiddling to make it level at the top

• Lift out boat and velcro onto velcro strip on hanging down water.

• WHEN REMOVING BOAT FOR PACKING UP, SLIDE FINGERS CAREFULLY UNDER THE BOAT AND
    PUT AS LITTLE STRAIN AS POSSIBLE ON IT WHILE SEPARATING THE VELCRO STRIPS.

• Slide out left hand drawer and remove the “burnt twigs”. 

• Spread them over the circle of campfire on the “beach” above the drawers.

• Nail the concertina poem book ‘River of Sleep’ beside the hanging box (procedure as per step 6).

• There are spare nails in the drawer if the paint on the nail heads becomes worn.

• Pull down is reverse of above – burnt twigs into left drawer, boat into box, night sky nails removed and put into right drawer, night sky panels folded, box nails removed and placed in right drawer, night sky folded into top of box starting with the bottom panel and holding the sides of the box out a little. 

• Fold up box and secure with leather thong.

Rosemary Penfold

Touch

• Wear Gloves

• Remove Artwork from container.

• Options :

  • Hang artwork by loop on yellow tassel.

  • Place Artwork over plinth, tassels hanging down, loops hidden.

  • Hang Artwork by loops, drops 80” [203cm] apart and about 39” [100cm] from the floor, or at the Director's discretion.
     

• Place container, with lid on, also at Director's discretion.

• Please do not allow the public to handle this artwork.

Caitlin Sheedy

In Your Dreams

‘In Your Dreams’ is an artists book of 8 images of etching and aquatint (all 20x20cm in size) printed on Arches paper. The concertina style of the book allows it to be  displayed fully open and expanded on a long shelf or plinth. The book will travel in a leather- bound box fitted with a lid, with the title embossed on its lid. This box is to be displayed next to the opened book on the shelf.

Jonathan Tse

Broken Dreams

Penny Carey Wells

Kiss Cakes

Corrie Wright

The Dress

This work is interactive and the drawer can be opened and is encouraged as viewer interaction is sought by opening the drawer, rolling paper pieces, and writing words that relate to participation and connection. These are seen as links and are placed back in the drawer to accumulate and for others to reflect on.

• Please click here to read the instructions for removing and packing the work.

• The lid is taken off the box  (NB the draw in the lid and the shelves in the box will easily slide out if tilted forward)

• Ideally the work to be placed on two plinths of varied heights, the box on the taller (eye level) and the lid on the smaller plinth or alternatively one plinth large enough to contain both lid and box.

• The plinth situated so it can be viewed 360% (walked around)

• NB  The shelves do slide out should the paper pieces have been displaced during transit and need restoring back into holes.

• Extra red pens have also been included.