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Artists John
Meade and Emily
Karanikolopolous have been awarded the $250,000 Southern Way McClelland
Commission 2018 for their elegant sculpture, Love Flower,
to be installed in August 2019.
The monumental and enchanting new sculpture will be sited along the
Peninsula Link freeway in Melbourne’s South East as part of a unique
and award-winning commitment to public art. It will replace Gregor
Kregar’s sculpture Reflective
Lullaby that is located on the Cranbourne road site, on
the Langwarrin exit ramp close to McClelland Sculpture Park+Gallery.
This major commission forms part of an ongoing program of new
sculptures that will alternate every two years between sites at Skye
Road and Cranbourne Road along Peninsula Link, resulting in 14
commissions over the 25-year period to 2037. Southern Way generously
donates funding for the sculptures. After four years on public display
the commissions form part of McClelland’s permanent sculpture collection.
‘The fifth in this highly regarded series of Southern Way McClelland
Commissions, John Meade and Emily Karanikolopolous’ Love Flower
will be iconic and awe inspiring. As public sculpture this work will
engage in ways with the aesthetics of nature, as well as being an
absolutely magical sight for all who pass by,’ says Lisa Byrne,
Director, McClelland Sculpture Park+Gallery.
Simon Lawrie, The Balnaves Curator of Australian Sculpture at
McClelland, says ‘Love
Flower has been selected from more than 60 submissions, and
will be installed at the Cranbourne Road site in late 2019. Gregor
Kregar’s Reflective
Lullaby, affectionately known as the ‘Chrome Gnome’,
will be removed and replaced with the new work by Meade and
Karanikolopolous, which is bound to enchant locals and visitors to the
Mornington Peninsula. This is the fifth sculpture to be created for
display along Peninsula Link for a period of 4 years, before being
donated to McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park for permanent display.’
The Southern
Way McClelland Commission received 65 submissions from
local, interstate and international artists. The commission judging
panel was Lisa Byrne, Director, McClelland Sculpture Park+Gallery,
Maudie Palmer AO, former inaugural Director of Heide Museum of Modern Art
and TarraWarra Museum of Art; and sculptor Lisa Roet.
John Meade
was born in Ballarat in 1956 and currently lives and working in
Melbourne. He studied Fine Art at the Victorian College of the Arts,
before completing a Masters of Arts at RMIT and a PhD in Fine Art at
Monash University. He lectures at Monash University and the University
of Melbourne. Meade’s practice draws relations, often humorous and
unexpected, between the metaphysical and surreal in the experience of
contemporary life and domestic culture. For more information see here
Meade has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally,
including From
Will to Form, TarraWarra Biennial, curated by Emily
Cormack, TarraWarra Museum of Art, 2018; The Enigma Code, Sara Scout
curated by Kate Daw, 2018. Recent solo exhibitions include Set Piece, Sutton
Gallery, Melbourne, 2016 and Autumn,
Sutton Gallery, Melbourne 2014, and he has completed
prominent sculpture commissions such as Riverside Corolla, Southbank,
Melbourne in 2011, and Progeny,
Heide Museum of Modern Art in 2006. His work is held in
major private and public collections throughout Australia, and he is
represented by Sutton Gallery, Melbourne.
Emily
Karanikolopoulos is an Australian artist who is a
teacher and practitioner of the Japanese floral arrangement art of
Sogetsu Ikebana. She is an active member of the Ikebana community of
Australia, and she has attained the highest possible Ikebana
accreditation outside Japan. She has exhibited in the Sogetsu Ikebana
Exhibition Takashima Shinjuku in 2014, and has been awarded three first
places in the Melbourne International Flower Show Shop Window
competition. For more information see here
McClelland
Sculpture Park+Gallery, 390
McClelland Drive, Langwarrin.
John Meade is represented by Sutton Gallery in Melbourne.
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Hello all,
Many of you would, already, have seen the above press release but I'm sure there are many that have not, so I thought I'd share it with you now that it is official. John and I are quite excited about it, we just have to make it happen.
When speaking with people about this project, I was quite surprised at how few people knew of the McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery. We are very lucky in Melbourne to have such a place. I highly recommend a visit and to allow enough time to walk around the grounds to see all the sculptures. There is, also, a warm and friendly cafe to rest and enjoy a late after your walk. Anyone interested in art would enjoy an afternoon there.
Those of you who have read my previous post will know that I am recovering from some injuries I sustained during a recent 'holiday' in Western Australia. I am improving every day but I'm a long way from being back to normal. I'm very grateful to my family and, in particular, my husband, Sam, for all their help.
The day after we returned home, I received a large bunch of beautiful flowers, sent by my friend Gwen. Despite my inability to move without pain, I couldn't let such lovely material go to waste, especially because I don't use store bought flowers very often. I thought I'd make one arrangement but, after I finished with that, I had to do another and so on. When I finished, I was physically a wreck but my spirits were lifted and I felt better mentally.
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"Focusing on the Uses of Water'
Haemanthus lily leaf and miniature chrysanthemums |
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| Siberian dogwood, stock flowers and miniature chrysanthemums |
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| Magnolia and miniature chrysanthemums |
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| Mitsumata and Oriental lilies |
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This was an arrangement I had done earlier but replaced the
flowers with the oriental lilies. |
A week later, when I was up to receiving visitors, my sisters-in-law, Betty and Toula came by and brought me a lovely bunch of pink tulips. Another luxury I don't, normally, have.
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I used gymea lily leaves and clivia flowers with the tulips
Two days after I arranged them, the tulips had grown and had to be recut
and rearranged. |
Bye for now,
Emily
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