‘Dear Agnes’ contemporary public art program

‘Dear Agnes’, is a contemporary public art program that features site-responsive works by 12 artists and collectives for nine days over three weeks (Friday 10 March – Sunday 26 March 2023) at the Truganina Explosives Reserve, Altona.

The artworks and public programming will respond and pay homage to local landscape-inspired themes and 'A Forest for Australia', a public sculpture by one of the world's leading environmental artists, New York-based Agnes Denes.

In 1998, the Australia Council commissioned Denes to create the work, a ‘forest’ of 6000 endangered tree species planted into five spirals at the Greater Western Water site on Queen Street, Altona Meadows.

To celebrate the artworks 25th anniversary, the ‘Dear Agnes’ project will bring to light the work of this prolific artist as well as provide an ongoing legacy through the generation of new ideas by contemporary public artists in response to Denes’ work.

Alongside the exhibition there will be, artists talks, creative workshops, live music and tours of the 'A Forest for Australia', artwork site by Greater Western Water.

Exhibiting artists:

Michelle Cox, Chispa Flaskas, Natasha Gardos, Ainslie Peverell & Meg Stewart-Snoad, Caleb Hardy & Jess Phillips, David Murphy, Amal Laala, Overlapping Collective - Forest Keegel & Annee Miron, James Price, PIPS - Catherine Magill & Vivienne Tate, Ana Sanchez, Autumn Tansey, Victoria Vyvyan

 

For more information and public program booking announcements please follow @_dear_agnes on Instagram.

 

The project is presented by Hobsons Bay City Council in partnership with Deakin University, RMIT University and Greater Western Water. 

Image credit: Matto Lucas

 

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When

Location

Truganina Explosives Reserve, 276 Queen Street, Altona, 3018, View Map