| "In
the 1960s, part of the suburb of Darlington was taken over by Sydney
University, generating public protest when many buildings, including
some of those surrounding the Tin Sheds Gallery, began to be bulldozed.
The Tin Sheds Art Workshop and gallery partly grew out of this protest
movement. The lines in 150-8 represent the position of the front walls
of the buildings which occupy/occupied the 2 blocks of land on each
side of the gallery, and the gallery's site, which are currently numbered
150-158 City Road. The work imagined that each of the 5 blocks is placed
on the site of the gallery, so that the eastern side of each block is
located on the eastern side of the gallery site. The lines of the base
of these front walls were positioned on the gallery floor, wall and
ceiling (as the other blocks were wider than the gallery's block), on
the same scale and location (in relation to the block's boundaries) as they are/were on their own block. The
buildings from each block are shown in different coloured tape, and
front doors were included, lying down. The existing semi-moveable walls
of the gallery were hung over the drawn lines." |
