Multi-panel First Nations artwork for new offices in Sydney
Public Artwork
Sydney, New South Wales
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Design Development
Fabrication
Installation
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Design & Commission
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Mixed Cultural First Nations Artist Lisa Waup
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Client: JC Decaux
Curators: Art Aid
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WRAP
Drawing on her distinctive monochromatic visual language, Waup's work is characterised by intricate black and white linework, rhythmic mark-making and layered symbolism. This new work translates her print and drawing series into a three dimensional series of wall panels. Here, the artwork reflects the networks of knowledge, stories and cultural connections that have existed across this landscape for millennia.
Our Role
Working closely with the artist we translated a small print series into this multi panel work, managing detailed design, fabrication and installed for the new offices of JC Decaux in Sydney.
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Lisa Waup
Lisa Waup is a mixed-cultural First Nations artist and curator, born in Narrm (Melbourne). Her multidisciplinary practice spans weaving, printmaking, photography, sculpture, fashion, and digital art. With a deep connection to the symbolic power of materials, Lisa explores the importance of tracing lost histories and ancestral relationships, and broader narratives relating to Country, motherhood, history, and time.
Lisa has exhibited extensively, with solo exhibitions at Koorie Heritage Trust (Naarm), Linden New Art Gallery (Naarm) and ReDot Gallery (Singapore). Her work was recently displayed at the National Gallery of Victoria as part of Melbourne Now, in Current at McClelland Gallery (Naarm) and is held in public and private collections across Australia and internationally. Lisa holds a Masters in Contemporary Art from the University of Melbourne, is a lecturer and tutor at the Victorian College of the Arts.
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