It means you’re pretty sick,
Rookwood being home to over one million bodies in the biggest (multicultural) necropolis in the southern hemisphere.
And what better place for a day out with the kids in the school holidays!
Actually, not as far-fetched as it seems. The grounds of this extensive cemetery are a botanical gardens in their own right and on a sunny day, it is a delightful (and peaceful) place for a picnic.
Though, we didn’t.
We had gone for a potter and an explore, hunting down long lost rellies (graves now sadly unmarked), and to check out ‘Hidden’, a sculpture walk through the plots and tombstones.
The pieces are a representation of the individual artists’ response to the cemetery. Rarely macrabre, mostly fairly whimsical – the exhibition gave our day out that extra ‘something’.
Here’s some of them…
Jane Lennon, ‘Swing Low’.
Kimmie Kitamura, ‘Life Seeds’.
Kylie Black, ‘Eulogy’.
Lee Bethel, ‘Murder’.
Will Coles, ‘Memorial to the Unknown Armchair General’.
Jacquelene Drinkall, ‘Sky Burial’.
My favourite, with her handbag, hat, and shoes… Lyndal Hargrave and Sue Henderson, ‘Afterimage’.
Jane Theau, ‘Bea’. A homage to local ‘resident’, the legendary (in the most Australian larrikan way), Bea Miles.
Emily Daughton, ‘You Light Up and Cover My Heart’.
Chloe Elizabeth, ‘Transcendence 1’.
Adam Galea, ‘Charon the Ferryman’.
Thomas C. Chung, ‘I Just Wanted to Say… I Still Remember You’.
Madeleine Hayes, ‘Waiting’.
Stephen Hall, ‘The Limner Loses’.
Julie Donnelly, ‘It’s All About the Light’.
Melisssa Laird, ‘Anima Spiro (Soul’s Last Breath)’.
Francois Breuillaud-Limondin and Nathalie Hartog-Gautier, ‘A B’.
Suzanne Davey, ‘Of Light and Matter’.
I love the idea of art in an environment like this. It’s really accessible.
Hidden finishes this weekend, but it is a yearly event and well worth the trip to Rookwood on a fine day.
(not part of the exhibition, but a unique homage nonetheless)
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