To Leighton Terrace for the story of stuff
Most residents of Hintonburg and West Wellington will have to wait for the diggers, pavers, and pipe-layers to vacate the main street before they enjoy the attractive new streetscape that promises to be on offer.
But area artist Gordon Wallace isn’t one to wait for beautification to be officially declared before taking an aesthetic interest in infrastructure renewal. His Leighton Terrace backyard is a base from which he forays out to harvest off-cuts and other unwanted “left-behinds” from street work in his area; combining this material with other found objects — and the occasional trip to to the hardware store — has produced a mysterious and challenging body of work.
Join Gordon as he gives us a glimpse of his working methods in the narrated slideshow above.
Love that guy!
I think the sky hawk thing is a door?
Don
I love gordon’s work – his use of “found” objects
and “junk” that most often ends up in landfill
should inspire all of us to expand our ideas of
the creative process and to examine the potential
of re-use and re-cycle by using our imagination.
Thank you so much for a delightful presentation.
Ian
Was so interesting to see your art work Gordon. Loved the bits about carting this junk from you house in B.C. I have a box of stuff here that I would gladly give you to deal with but as mail is expensive I guess I will be taking it to the recycling shop.
Thanks, cousin.
I just stumbled across this: so cool to see you and your work again, even if only virtual.
Cheers, your (former WEST-ie) pal