FOUNTAINS FOR MOONEE PONDS CREEK
Public Interventions, Video documentation, artist's book Moonee Ponds Creek (2017-18)

Fountains for Moonee Ponds Creek traces an attempt to transform the Moonee Ponds Creek into a fountain. This sculptural gesture was articulated through a series of site interventions, video documentation, and a printed publication. The intervention produces a moment of rupture through the collision of contrasting images – a fountain and a stormwater drain. The Moonee Ponds Creek is a heavily engineered waterway traversing Melbourne’s North-West. It is a complex site suspended between its engineered history; its multiple functions as a recreation arterial, drainage system and public amenity; the politics of its future development; and community initiatives to protect and restore its ecology. Fountains for Moonee Ponds Creek (2017-18), reimagines the Creek’s heavily engineered form as a sculptural artefact, shaped by historical attitudes toward nature and the process of urbanisation. The publication Development of the Moonee Ponds Creek Drainage System, is an imagined facsimile of an unpublished survey by the Melbourne Metropolitan Board of Works, interleaved with images of the project and texts. 5 copies were produced and will be accsessioned and circulated through library collections.

Sculptural interventions, Moonee Ponds Creek, Melbourne, 2017-18. Stormwater, portable fire-fighting pump, cloth hose, high-pressure nozzle, plastic flotation device, concrete blocks, steel trolley. Dimensions and duration variable.

Video Installation. HD video loop, colour, sound, 3:57. Pine, plywood, paint, fluorescent light, fixings. Installation views, Master of Fine Art Graduate Exhibition, Building D 1.08, Monash University Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, 2018.

Artist's book. Modified facsimile of Development of the Moonee Ponds Creek Drainage System (Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works, 1981), Foil-stamped PVC ring binder, 443 pp + 11 colour inserts. Edition of 5, 285 x 315mm.