Site 1. Matej Andraz Vogrincic (Slovenia)
Moon Plain 27th October - 8th December 2002
Port 23rd November - 17th December 2002

Matej Andraz Vogrincic is artist in residence at the Arts Centre in October/November 2002. During his residency he is exhibiting Moon Plain, a documentation of a major site-specific work, at the SoFA Gallery and creating a new public art work for the Arts Centre.

His new artwork, Port, involves transforming one of the Arts Centre's grass quadrangles and filling the space with water and dozens of origami boats. The boats are made by schoolchildren in workshops with the artist at Hornby Primary and Hammersley Park Schools, and painted in vibrant colours by the artist, offsetting the historic beauty of the surrounding Gothic Revival architecture.

The exhibition Moon Plain documents Vogrincic's installation in the Australian desert, where he cast 1,800 watering cans out of plaster and arranged them over an area the size of a football field. This installation is documented through large-scale colour photographs of the work and replicas of the plaster watering cans.

Curator: Ewen McDonald