Heritage

Site-responsive Art, Land Art.

Positioned on a federally-protected “heritage” Kikuyu grass lawn in the Abbotsford Convent grounds,  this artwork was comprised of indigenous grasses planted in a configuration which spelt out the word “heritage” in a copperplate script. With multiple viewing points, on the ground and from the balcony, the text grew across approximately 8 meters of lawn.

This artwork proposes, through the medium of grass, that there are multiple ways to consider the idea of heritage. Aligning with David Malouf’s concept of land can  bear any number of cultures laid one above the other. A cultural locus which constantly transforms through space and time, gardens have multiple meanings, subject to our actions and ethics. The site of The Abbotsford Convent offers a rich example of this concept, rich in a number of heritages.