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Visitors to Sydney’s Rookwood Cemetery will be able to experience art in an unusual setting when the third annual Sculpture Walk takes place next year.
Following positive feedback and enthusiasm for previous exhibitions, the Anglican and General Cemetery Trusts are partnering with Auburn Council and Sydney Olympic Park Authority to create Hidden: A Rookwood Sculpture Walk 2011.
Unlike previous years, the 2011 outdoor exhibition will be featured among the graves in one of the older sites of the cemetery and neighbouring areas. With views of the city on the horizon, the site offers artists a rare opportunity to showcase their works in an extremely thought provoking context.
For the first time since the exhibition started a $5,000 non-acquisitive award will be given to one of the artists whose work is exhibited in the outdoor sculpture exhibition. The judges will be looking for a well-considered and original outdoor sculpture or installation that poignantly deals with the themes of the Rookwood site.
On top of the $5,000 award, Auburn City Council will be offering an artist, or collaborative artists, a one-month residency at the Peacock Gallery and Auburn Arts Studio at no cost. A one-month residency at Newington Armory is also being offered to artists selected for Hidden 2011, in conjunction with the Sydney Olympic Park Authority, to help with the preparation of their work for the exhibition.
New media artists have also been asked to submit proposals for a site-specific new media installation inside the All Souls Chapel, to run in tandem with the 2011 Rookwood Sculpture Walk.
The artworks chosen for the event will address themes appropriate to the site, such as grief, loss, memory, death, mourning, spirituality, religion and heritage as well as the culture around memorial, eulogy, burial and ceremony.
More information about Hidden is available on the Rookwood Cemetery website.
Hidden: A Rookwood Sculpture Walk will be held from Monday 7 March to Sunday 8 May 2011, starting on the northern end of Hawthorn Avenue. The walk will be open sunrise to sunset and is free to the public.
