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Brook Andrew (born 1970)
Travelling Colony
Painted caravan (gloss enamel)
240cm high x 537cm long x 210cm wide (approximately) (94 1/2 x 211 1/2 x 82 3/4in)
Estimate:
AU$ 10,000 - 15,000
US$ 10,000 - 15,000
£6,500 - 9,700

Footnotes

  • PROVENANCE:
    Executed in 2011/2012
    Carriageworks and Sydney Festival 2012

    In January 2012 Brook Andrew will present Travelling Colony, a major new work, commissioned by Sydney Festival, and Carriageworks.

    Inspired by the circus, pop culture, and his Wiradjuri heritage, Brook Andrew will create a cavalcade of dazzling hand-painted caravans. Produced in partnership with Sydney Festival and Carriageworks, Travelling Colony comprises seven customized caravans, each painted with a unique design and in a different colour, based on a Wiradjuri pattern. Colours include red, yellow, blue, black, silver and gold.

    Travelling Colony will be a key feature of the Sydney Festival 2012. For Festival First Night the caravans will be activated by live performers and surrounded by large scale light projections designed by Brook Andrew throughout Sydney.

    Following this, the caravans will be installed in the foyer of Carriageworks, where they will form the centrepiece of Black Capital, a major programming initiative of Sydney Festival and Carriageworks that considers Redfern's place as the capital of Indigenous urban experience in Australia and responds to the shifting demographics and social change in the area.

    Brook Andrew's installation at Carriageworks will also mark Carriageworks' new direction in artistic programming under Lisa Havilah that has a commitment to producing contemporary work in partnership with artists and within the context in which it is situated.

    The caravan in this lot (unillustrated) can be viewed at Bonhams' preview exhibition in Sydney, 17-21 November (for exhibition details see front of catalogue). Images of the caravan to be sold will also be available on Bonhams' online catalogue: at www.bonhams.com/aus/auction/19690/. Its designs are closely related to those of Colony, 2007, De Overkant / Down Under: Contemporary Sculpture from Australia and The Netherlands, The Hague Sculpture 07, the Netherlands 2007(illustrated).

    Following the Sydney Festival, this caravan will be available for collection as of 5 March, 2012.

Auction Notices

  • The caravan now being sold measures 2.6m high x 2.12m x 4.34m wide and is painted in a palette of red, white, black and yellow and is not of the dimensions and palette listed in the catalogue.

Category: Fine Art / Aboriginal Art

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