I am pleased to be invited to participate in Broken Hill’s Slag Heap Projects first exhibition for 2024: under | visible.
From the group: Our very organisation was born out of in depth discussions around the Slag Heap as both site and metaphor, and this fertile ground has become a framework for enquiry. As a starting point, we are interested in what it feels like to walk on, up and alongside the Slag Heap in central Broken Hill. It is both fluid and fixed. It is an anchor, a magnetic force. It is grotesque. At times, as the sun sets down Sulphide Street, it frames a desert sunset. It can feel both permanent and impermanent, with structures built atop the waste of an industry responsible for ecological and cultural violences.
Stay tuned for the exhibition happening in early April!