INSTALLATION | Carolyn Menzies

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CAROLYN MENZIES

INSTALLATIONS

- Site-specific artworks

Suspended between two trees by bungee cords is an installation of curving chains and leaf-like additions of braided wired set in tall grasses.

Suspended between two trees by bungee cords is an installation of curving chains and leaf-like additions of braided wired set in tall grasses.

Artist stands next to artwork - installation in parkland.

Close up of leaf-like braid wire forms hanging from jack chain.

LEASEHOLD, 2022

Jack chain, jewellery chain, braided wire and bungee cords.
H195 x w249 x 92cm

Stories in the Landscape 2022, Curated by Gina Ferguson, Sculpture Park at the Waitakaruru Arboretum, Waikato

Photo credit: Carolyn Menzies & Kit Edwards

Woman on the street looking into single large glass vitrine containing various sculptures. Some are free-standing while other are hang from the wall or ceiling.

Text describing a personal experience of the artist that informs the work on show.

A man on the street looking into single large glass vitrine containing various sculptures. Some are free-standing while other are hang from the wall or ceiling.

JUST NOW AGO, 2022

Eucalyptus branches, steel wool, bollards, bead chain, steel mesh, hi-vis fabric, magnets, steel rings.
Dimensions variable

The Off Season, Group Exhibition, Assembly Point Vitrines, Melbourne

Photo credit: Kit Edwards

Sculptural installation in retail window consisting of a single hanging work of stainless steel mesh suspended from the ceiling and two coral-like forms on the wooden platform below.

Sculptural installation in retail window consisting of a single hanging work of stainless steel mesh suspended from the ceiling and two coral-like forms on the wooden platform below.

Close-up of the two coral-like forms on the wooden platform.

MAID (text), 2021

MAID, 2021

Stainless steel mesh, thread & sinkers
Dimensions variable

Albert Park Art Walk (2021), Filly's Stable, Bridport Street, Albert Park

Photo credit: Kit Edwards

In the center of a round brick garden-bed dyed brick-red palm tree inflorescence branches creates a tree like tower. Surrounding it 4 points are bamboo stars inter-laced with brick red individual sticks of inflorescence with a single kangaroo paw plant planted at the center of each four points.

Text describing the motivation for the installation.

Close-up of branches dyed brick-red palm tree inflorescence stacked to make a tower at the center of the installation.

Detail of artists weaving individual inflorescence sticks into low bamboo structure.

SOLAR SPIRAL, 2018

Palm tree inflorescence, kangaroo paw, ink, twine

4.1 x 2.5 metres

From Nature (2018), Gasworks Art Park, Melbourne

Photo credit: Carolyn Menzies