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Toolangi Sculpture Trail 2019

Creation of new environmental sculpture in the Toolangi Forest.

Project details

Suggested by: Savaad

Project partner: Yarra Valley Arts Council Inc - t/as Yarra Valley Arts

Region

Goulburn

Budget

$60,600.00

Votes

63 votes received

This project did not receive enough votes to be successful.

The Toolangi Sculpture Trail 2019 will build on the Toolangi Sculpture Trail events of 1996 and 2016.
Six local artists will work in the Toolangi State Forest to create new sculptures over a two week residency using sustainable materials sourced from the forest. The project will increase environmental awareness through artworks created and installed in a native forest setting.
The Toolangi Sculpture Trail is open to the public seven days a week and is a wonderful, free activity for local families and for tourists to the region.
Upon completion the new sculptures will be gifted to the State of Victoria.

New sculptures on the Toolangi Sculpture Trail 2019 will benefit the community by:
- providing local residents and visitors to the forest with a way of engaging with art and the environment
- providing a stimulating culturally rich environment for families and visitors
- ensuring that this regional Victorian attraction remains vibrant and relevant
- giving local artists an opportunity to engage with the Toolangi State Forest, to exchange ideas and techniques and to experiment with sustainable materials in creating new artworks
- engaging the community in artist talks, artist run workshops and sculpture trail tours

Project details

Suggested by: Savaad

Project partner: Yarra Valley Arts Council Inc - t/as Yarra Valley Arts

Region

Goulburn

Budget

$60,600.00

Votes

63 votes received

This project did not receive enough votes to be successful.

Comments

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DJF

19 Aug 2018

Great project, well worth voting for.

Michael

17 Aug 2018

This environmental installation is a growing masterpiece, and deserves ongoing support. The works are subtle, imaginative, and rooted in the location: not like the billionaire playgrounds where off-the-shelf big outdoor works by big sculpture names are ranked-up, side by side, like in a "used art" parking lot, vis Point Leo, Tarrawarra, Heide, and McLelland. The Toolangi Sculpture Trail celebrates integration of artwork and context in ways that defy conventional sculpture walks and exhibitions, and which create a poetic internal dialogue within viewers that engages with deep questions concerning creativity, environment, the impacts of human activity, and untamed Australian bush, and all of the explicit and less apparent relationships between these variants. The Toolangi Sculpture Trail is a unique and highly significant place of artistic testing, where 3D artists expose their ideas about the location to the very ravages that the location inflicts upon their work, combining the ideas of votive offering with ritual sacrifice. Works resulting from this engagement are never trivial.