Heavy Weather
A heavy apple rests on the windowsill inside Isaac Newton’s bedroom, aligned with the apple tree that has witnessed countless falls.
This work is the sister of the installation Gutter Phonics, commissioned for the exhibition Inside, Underground – Siteworks: From a Deep Valley, Bundanon Art Museum 2022.
Special Thanks to Emma Michalak, Jennie Johns, and the volunteers at Woolsthorpe Manor – National Trust UK, Scott Miles, Ed Swabey, Lou Hubbard and Bree Richards.
Susan Jacobs
Susan Jacobs’ practice is multi layered, and moves between sculpture, site responsive works, video, and drawing. Her works respond both to the latent potentials of her chosen materials, and the contexts in which they take form.
Her exhibition The Ants are in the Idiom was recently presented at Buxton Contemporary, The University of Melbourne (2022), Animal grammar was exhibited at Mackintosh Lane, London (2018). Other commissions include Through the mouth of the Mantle, for Viva Incerteza the 32nd Sao Paulo Bienal, Brazil (2016), and Vessel for mixing metaphors, at The National Gallery of Victoria (2013). Susan has exhibited in public galleries and artist run projects since 2000. She is an Australia Council fellow (2020-2021) and a MacDowell Fellow USA (2014). She was born in Sydney and lives in London.
Bundanon’s annual presentation of environmental research projects and public programs has a decade-long history. In 2022, Siteworks is presenting a family of projects that draw on climate research, critical thinking through contemporary art, creative digital spaces, and Indigenous knowledge and technologies.
The starting point for Siteworks 2022 is the concept of the weather report, borrowed to map both environmental and emotional spaces, and chronicle internal and external landscapes. This expansive program includes a new exhibition, outdoor installations, a laboratorium space for workshops and performances, as well as talks and events over weekends throughout the season. Siteworks 2022 posits the artist as a kind of weather balloon, capturing a collection of reports on our place and our time.
Commissioned by Bundanon; part of the weather station in Bundanon, NSW, Australia
