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Residency Program    |
| Rodney Glick Artist, Perth, Australia February 15 - March 14, 2006 |
Ambitious? Who, Me? 2004 Laminated digital print on vinyl, 300 x 400 cm,
3D Visualisation: Sohan Ariel Hayes (detail) |
Since
2000, Rodney Glick has been working on a project to build the world’s
largest snow dome. The proposal consists of a giant acrylic structure,
its walls lined with water, intended for display in sites around
the world. It is in effect a portable exhibition space, designed
to contain objects, particularly art works, which can be wheeled
in and out of a trapdoor at the back. A quixotic experiment in construction
as well as bureaucracy and fundraising, it could conceivably take
years to realise. No matter; Glick is nothing if not patient. As
an artist based in the isolated city of Perth, Western Australia,
Glick is used to things moving a little more slowly and quietly,
far from the eyes of the international art circuit. He has made
a virtue of his location, constructing from it a wide field of possibilities
for art making by means of sculpture, video, painting, photography,
collage, slide projection, installation, books, architecture, public
art, and furniture.*
Glick has also been instrumental in the Founding and Co-Direction of spaces such as International Outcamp for the Arts-Gingin, Australia, International Performance Space-Tammin, Australia, and International Art Space-Kellerberrin, Australia. Rodney Glick was recommended by Gary Dufour, Deputy Director of the Art Gallery of Western Australia in Perth. *bio excerpted from text by Russell Storer, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
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