AUSTRALIA | PUBLIC ART
STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA IN ASSOCIATION
WITH MELBOURNE FESTIVAL PRESENT
GRASSLANDS
LINDA TEGG
STATE LIBRARY OF VICTORIA, WORLD PREMIERE
FORECOURT
Sat 11 Oct – Sun 23 Nov In the contemporary bustle of
Exhibit open 24 hours Melbourne’s CBD, few of us can
Image: Linda Tegg, Grasslands
(site test, State Library of Victoria), 2014
FREE
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conceive what the landscape
would have looked like prior to
white settlement.
This October, Melbourne artist
and Library Fellow Linda Tegg
orchestrates Grasslands, a grand
meditation on nature versus
culture at the State Library of
Victoria. Working with experts at
Burnley Agricultural College, Tegg
selected a plethora of specially
grown native plants and grasses
with which to restore the imposing
stone forecourt of the Library to
an imagined primordial wilderness.
The result is a breathtaking
reclamation of one of the city’s
best-loved public spaces, which
recalls nature past and provokes
reflection on the inexorable march
of progress in the name of culture.
This project has been assisted by the
Australian Government through the Australia
Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
This project is also supported by University
of Melbourne - Burnley Campus, Department
of Resource Management and Geography.
Grasslands is the result of a Georges Mora
Foundation Fellowship.
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