Send Off: La Perouse - Daniel Press at the Bayview
Fri 3 May 2024 - Sun 28 Jul 2024
- Location
- The Bayview Gallery, La Perouse Museum
- Address
- 1542 Anzac Parade, La Perouse 2036
COMING SOON: Wander through the ghostly past with Daniel Press in this new exhibition at the Bayview. Please note that 'Send Off: La Perouse' now opens on Friday 3 May due to environmental conditions.
- Cost
- Free entry
- lpm@randwick.nsw.gov.au
- More Contact Information
- Phone 9093 6190
Monuments of the British monarchy are embedded within public spaces across the globe. For Send-Off, Press communicated with public art authorities in Australia and beyond to coordinate 3D scans of these effigies.
The resultant wax-cast sculptures are ghostly beings: each bearing the residue of inconsistent protocols, technologies, levels of access, and states of deterioration. The exhibition gathers these 'unstable monuments' together, before their dispersal to interstate locations.
The exhibition also reflects on the French vestiges in the La Perouse area, represented by the hollow plaster replicas of Louis XVI and Lapérouse; with the namesake of the latter embedded in the Museum's name. The waxen copies of these busts conjure a legacy of mythmaking.
Daniel Press is a sculptor who uses the copying potential of digital fabrication and lost-wax casting to destabilise the tradition of monument-making.
Exhibition Hours:
- Wednesdays and Fridays: 10am - 2pm
- Saturdays and Sundays: 10am - 4pm
Title Image: Daniel Press, 'Haunted Hobart: Bengaluru, India', 2023. Wax mixed with oil paint. Photography by Richard Trang. Image courtesy of the artist.
