Sat 4 May 2024 - Sat 4 May 2024

2 pm - 3.30 pm

Location

Bayview Gallery, La Perouse Museum

Address

1542 Anzac Parade, La Perouse 2036

Celebrate the opening of Send Off: La Perouse with the artist Daniel Press at the Bayview.

Cost

Free entry

Email

lpm@randwick.nsw.gov.au

More Contact Information

Phone 9093 6190

Join us for the opening of Send Off: La Perouse in the Bayview Gallery! Daniel Press is a sculptor who uses the copying potential of digital fabrication and lost-wax casting to destabilise the tradition of monument-making.

Daniel will be opening his exhibition from 2pm in the Bayview, so come along, explore his intricate 3D works, and wander through the ghostly remnants of public sculptures.

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 ruinous vestiges of French imperialism 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.

Please note: The Bayview Gallery does not have disabled access and can only be reached via the rear staircase. Please contact the Museum if you have any mobility concerns.

Image: Daniel Press, 'Haunted Hobart: Bengaluru, India', 2023. Wax mixed with oil paint. Photography by Richard Trang.