Sonic Pressure - Virginia Hilyard and Sue Pedley
Occupied - Blue Mountains Cultural Centre - 2 June - 5 July 2020
Curated by Rilka Oakley
exhibition catalogue: http://bluemountainsculturalcentre.com.au/exhibition/occupied/
Sonic Pressure is a series of large-scale graphite rubbings and a sound scape made during the artists’ residency in 2016 at the BundanonTrust, 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 and beyond, for centuries.
In proximity to the cement tank which once supplied water to the dairy; the stone ruins of the hearth of the original homestead and hoses found in the gardens are the sites where the rubbings were created and the sounds were recorded. Using contact microphones sounds unheard by the human ear were gathered and archived...…….sound sentence bla la bla.
It was through the act of making the full-size impressions – or rubbings – and editing the sound of these objects that unseen textures, spaces and cavities, dips and holes were revealed. It is in the fusion of these field-work drawings and sounds that unstudied histories are presented. Despite the utilitarian, mundane and purposeful nature of these objects, they add, in a very real way, to knowledge of the site at Bundanon and Australian vernacular architecture and landscape.
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 and beyond, for centuries.
In proximity to the cement tank which once supplied water to the dairy; the stone ruins of the hearth of the original homestead and hoses found in the gardens are the sites where the rubbings were created and the sounds were recorded. Using contact microphones sounds unheard by the human ear were gathered and archived...…….sound sentence bla la bla.
It was through the act of making the full-size impressions – or rubbings – and editing the sound of these objects that unseen textures, spaces and cavities, dips and holes were revealed. It is in the fusion of these field-work drawings and sounds that unstudied histories are presented. Despite the utilitarian, mundane and purposeful nature of these objects, they add, in a very real way, to knowledge of the site at Bundanon and Australian vernacular architecture and landscape.
