Hyphen – Wodonga Library Gallery’s cantilever windows have been blooming with colour after dark.
Artist Robert Sherwood Duffield, who lives between one home in Urana and another in Wollongong, has recorded a seven-minute film focusing on a grevillea flower he captured during a recent artist residency.
Robert is the director of Urana Arts, a community-based organisation which holds workshops and helps tutor students undertaking certain TAFE courses.
He is also a member of the Murray Arts board and the Illawarra Association for the Visual Arts.
Robert’s work was selected to feature at Hyphen as part of the council's ephemeral art program, which supports local artists to create inspiring temporary public art.
“Being a professional artist is about finding opportunities like this one,” he said.
Robert is now on his way to the Sydney Fringe Festival where he is in a show at 107 Projects titled 'Limitless'.
His projection on Hyphen’s exterior is titled Grevillea Dreaming.
“The original still is from a body of work on flora, which is also going to be the subject of a light box commission in Albury,” he said.
“I had a residency late last year at the Botanic Gardens in Cairns and the work looked at patterns in nature.
"A long standing interest of mine that dates back to work from over four decades ago. I've been making work for quite some time."
Robert described his projection as a series of patterns featuring the grevillea flower.
“What they are looking at is a grevillea flower, but then the grevillea flower is what I see as part of a dream, we are surrounded by eternity and time and space is finite in a sense but the grevillea flower morphs and changes and dreams of its possibilities,” he said.
“So I am capturing a flower, which is a pattern in a dream, that’s dreaming of its possibilities and that is what life is like, really.”
The projection is playing each night until 11.30pm at Hyphen.
Come down to Hyphen and see it for yourself before the end of September.
You can see more of Robert’s work by clicking here.
