Lorna Green: Stay, Live and Sit

About the exhibition
For this exhibition, Lorna Green created a permanent sculpture in the Monash Gallery garden that offers a space to stay, live and sit. At the time, her work was the largest sculpture to be installed in the Monash grounds, situated near There Ought To Be A Law Against It, 1977, by Clive Murray-White, and May, 1987, by Lyn Moore, outside the Gallery building. As with Murray-White's Retrospective, 1993—an earthwork comprising a turf mound and concrete annulus that replaced his two aluminium parabolas of Domes, 1968, after they were damaged—Stay, Live and Sit creates an interactive dialogue with its surroundings.

Green marked out the new site by rearranging—and, in the process, regenerating—material pre-existing in the garden landscape. These boulders plot the structure of an open double spiral, ordered on a reducing scale toward the central granite stepping stones. The geological nature of the dacite is contrasted with the overlay of granite segments. The tension between the form and composition of the two distinct materials is obliterated by reflections glittering on the polished granite surface. Reflected light extends the space of the sculpture and mirrors activity around the work, integrating sculpture, temporal and physical surroundings.

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