Title
Solwata
2015-2016
Artists
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Details
- Places where the work was made
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Erub
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Erub Island (Darnley Island)
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Zenadth Kes (Torres Strait Islands)
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Australia
Cairns → Queensland → Australia
- Date
- 2015-2016
- Media category
- Sculpture
- Materials used
- Ghostnet (reclaimed fishing net and rope)
- Dimensions
- 220.0 x 1600.0 cm approx., irreg.
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased with funds provided by Vicki Olsson 2016
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 255.2016
- Copyright
- © the artists
- Artist information
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Marion Gaemers
Works in the collection
- Artist information
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Lynnette Griffiths
Works in the collection
- Artist information
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Florence Gutchen
Works in the collection
- Artist information
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Racy Oui-Pitt
Works in the collection
- Artist information
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Ellarose Savage
Works in the collection
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About
Erub Erwer Meta (Darnley Island Arts Centre) is located on Erub or Darnley Island in the eastern Torres Strait. Artists at the centre work in diverse media, with a particular focus in recent times being provided through the use of ghost nets to create sculptural forms. This method of working was instigated by Ghost Net Australia who travelled to the island in 2010 as part of a larger project across the far north of Queensland that aimed to collect the vast numbers of discarded fishing nets that had washed up on the beaches and use these to create artworks. The artists are Erub have since become known for this animated forms of the variety of sea life found in the region.
Solwata translates as ‘saltwater’ and this was the inspiration for ‘Solwata’ 2016. This large scale collaborative work gives imaginative form to the saltwater reefs, tidal areas and shorelines of the Torres Strait. The work was commissioned from the Torres Strait Islander artists Florence Mabel Gutchen, Racy Oui-Pitt and Ellarose Savage, in conjunction with the Cairns based artists Marion Gaemers and Lynnette Griffiths for the 2016 Biennale of Sydney, The future is already here it is just not evenly distributed and featured in the ‘Embassy of Spirit’ at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. -
Places
Where the work was made
Cairns
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Exhibition history
Shown in 2 exhibitions
20th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 18 Mar 2016–05 Jun 2016
From Here, for Now, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 05 Nov 2022–12 Feb 2023