Lacuna (series)
Virginia Hilyard and Sue Pedley, 2016
Lacuna (series) are ten large-scale graphite rubbings made during the artists’ residency in 2016 at the Bundanon Trust, located on the Shoalhaven River, NSW.
Lacuna (series-Well)
10mx1.5m, graphite, 2016
Lacuna (series- Tank) 10m x 1.5m
Lacuna (series- Bore Water Pump)
Lacuna (series- Hearth) - graphite, 3.5m x1.5m, 2016
detail - Lacuna (series-Hearth)
Lacuna (series) are ten large-scale graphite rubbings made during the artists’ residency in 2016 at the Bundanon Trust, located on the Shoalhaven River, NSW.
Hilyard and Pedley were drawn to man-made structures on the Bundanon property associated with fire and water, elemental forces that have significantly shaped the Bundanon property, and indeed the Shoalhaven landscape, for centuries.
The containers for water and the structures relating to fire presented a lacuna for Hilyard and Pedley. The origins of the word lacuna trace back to the mid-seventeenth century from the Latin word lacus meaning lake, pond, lagoon, ditch and hole. Today, the word lacuna carries meaning across many disciplines of enquiry, for example an unstudied area of science, amnesia in psychology, a silence in music and a cavity in anatomy.
The artists’ were drawn to the functional objects scattered throughout the gardens and paddocks around the sandstone homestead. These structures were formed in cement, metal, stone or timber and seemed to sit outside the heritage narrative of the site. It was through the act of making the full-size impressions – or rubbings - of these objects that unseen textures, spaces and cavities, dips and holes were revealed. It is in these field-work drawings that unstudied histories are presented, and despite the utilitarian, mundane and purposeful nature of these objects, they add, in a very real way, to knowledge of the site at Bundanon.
Hilyard and Pedley were drawn to man-made structures on the Bundanon property associated with fire and water, elemental forces that have significantly shaped the Bundanon property, and indeed the Shoalhaven landscape, for centuries.
The containers for water and the structures relating to fire presented a lacuna for Hilyard and Pedley. The origins of the word lacuna trace back to the mid-seventeenth century from the Latin word lacus meaning lake, pond, lagoon, ditch and hole. Today, the word lacuna carries meaning across many disciplines of enquiry, for example an unstudied area of science, amnesia in psychology, a silence in music and a cavity in anatomy.
The artists’ were drawn to the functional objects scattered throughout the gardens and paddocks around the sandstone homestead. These structures were formed in cement, metal, stone or timber and seemed to sit outside the heritage narrative of the site. It was through the act of making the full-size impressions – or rubbings - of these objects that unseen textures, spaces and cavities, dips and holes were revealed. It is in these field-work drawings that unstudied histories are presented, and despite the utilitarian, mundane and purposeful nature of these objects, they add, in a very real way, to knowledge of the site at Bundanon.
detail - Lacuna (series-Hearth)