City of Marion commission for the Morphettville Park Sports Club, designed by Walter Brooke and Associates.
Wood, aluminium, paint, led lighting.
Adelaide, South Australia
The idea for this project was initially linked to memories of an influential and independent woman, Eva Jozeps (1925-1998), who lived just a street away from the site of this new sports centre. Eva, my aunt, raised three children on her own in a little workers cottage in Dalby Avenue, which was also the meeting point for any number of family gatherings during the 40 odd years that she lived there. On top of a focus on her own family, she also gave much of her time and energy as a teacher of the arts and social sciences, mentoring less academically inclined young women, fostering a culture of progressive thinking, and bringing together a community of like minded individuals.
While tapping into some of my own childhood memories of this place I became particularly interested in how memories of past events can be triggered by certain textures, surfaces, sounds and smells. Sensory information that forms part of our embodied experience of place.
In a way, this work was an attempt to introduce to this public space, a new set of textural surfaces and visual rhythms that may be the basis for future memories and experiences of place to emerge from.
Each slat is treated individually and is composed of a different material, colour or finish.
