two boilers
Commissioned by the University of Western Sydney
The Parramatta campus of the University of Western Sydney is on the site of a psychiatric hospital which had a laundry powered by a boiler house. The boiler house was the last un-renovated building and the university commissioned me to make sculpture out of the contents of the building which was converted to a restaurant. The main contents were two large, riveted boilers. I wanted to present the boilers as “plinthed” sculpture, as things worth looking at, under and through.
I decided on a pile of boilers, drew and made models to get over the problem of not being able to move the boilers until
the final placement.
They were brought to my workshop, cleaned and they sat for a year. Shall I do this or that? One day we craned them onto a truck, took them to site and lowered them onto the support structure I had made and installed – and they fit.
Having lived with the boilers for some time when the install was done I fled never to return. Well, a few months later. I like it.