Peter Sharp Wood Quarry
Peter Sharp Wood Quarry
21 October 2022 - 19 May 2023
Hazelhurst Gardens
Hazelhurst Arts Centre
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PETER SHARP WOOD QUARRY
Peter Sharp works across drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture. As an artist, he is interested in the order of the natural world, thinking about and exploring nature and its systems to generate unexpected outcomes.
Wood Quarry is an on-site residency in the Hazelhurst Gardens, where the artist has been developing experimental works in an outdoor studio between October 2022 and May 2023. The works are made from large pieces of fallen timber that have been salvaged from the local area.
Throughout the residency visitors had the opportunity to see Sharp working with chainsaws and other tools to carve and construct freestanding sculptures, pushing the boundaries of his practice while responding to the site and materials.
Large freestanding sculptures from the residency will be on display in the Hazelhurst eastern courtyard from 1 June 2023.
opposite: outdoor studio in action next pages: completed studio
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Sutherland Shire Council acknowledges the Dharawal people as the Traditional Custodians of the land within the Sutherland Shire. We value and celebrate Dharawal culture & language, and acknowledge Dharawal people’s continuing connection to the land, the sea and community. We pay respect to the Elders and their families, past, present and emerging, and through them, to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
HAZELHURST STAFF
Director: Belinda Hanrahan
Curator: Carrie Kibbler
Assistant Curator: Naomi Stewart Public Programs & Education
Coordinator: Natalie O’Connor Public Programs & Education
Officer: Melissa Goodall
Marketing Advisor: Stephanie Hopper
Arts Centre Coordinator: Fiona McFadyen
Team Leader Visitor Services & Administration: Caryn Schwartz
Venue Duty Officers: Vilma
Hodgson, Giada Cantini
Visitor Service Assistants: Hannah McClaren, Marilyn Brown, Adam Douglas, Grant Drinkwater
Hazelhurst Arts Centre is a facility of Sutherland Shire Council and supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW.
Peter Sharp
Wood Quarry
Outdoor studio residency
21 October 2022 - 19 May 2023
Installation of large freestanding sculptures
1 June - end December 2023
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ISBN: 978-1-921437-77-9
All images by silversalt photography.
Peter Sharp is represented by Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney and Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne
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