New South Vol. 2: Recent Sculpture & Installation Art
Highlights
- Explore diverse sculptures and installations that showcase the vibrant creativity of intergenerational artists from Southern Australasia.
- Engage with immersive artworks designed to interact with viewers, enhancing your sensory experience in a dynamic gallery space.
- Discover meaningful connections between materials and environments as you navigate through the thoughtfully curated exhibition.
- Enjoy family-friendly facilities including a café and restaurant, making your visit to Hazelhurst Arts Centre comfortable and enjoyable.
New South Vol. 2 is a major group exhibition presenting recent examples of sculpture and installation art from across Southern Australasia. Bringing together intergenerational artists, the exhibition offers a snapshot of current sculptural practice and the ideas shaping it today.
A key theme of the exhibition is inter-relations, what happens between objects, materials, built environments and viewers. The artworks are presented together in shared space, allowing them to interact, overlap and influence one another. These encounters invite visitors to notice new connections and meanings as they move through the exhibition.
New South Vol. 2 is a follow-up of two earlier exhibitions hosted by Hazelhurst Arts Centre, South (2014), which featured artists from Australia, Mexico and South Africa, and New South (2024), which focused on contemporary painting.
Installation art has its roots in the experimental art movements of the 1960s, including happenings, assemblage and performance. Installations are often made from gathered objects, materials and sensory elements, and are designed to respond to the gallery space. Many works invite visitors to enter or move through them, encouraging engagement through sight, sound and physical experience. This immersive approach allows for open interpretation and multiple ways of understanding each work.
Images and Video
Dates & times
- Next occurrence: reoccurring
Features
Actively welcomes people with access needs.
General access
- Offers multiple options for booking – web, email, phone is available.
- Offers a range of contact methods for receiving complaints.
- Companion Cards are accepted.
- Staff are trained in disability awareness.
- Accessibility information and photos, including of a bathroom, room and/or floor plan on their website (can be emailed on request).
- Website meets <a href="https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/wcag/" target="_blank">WCAG 2.0</a> accessibility standards
Communication
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- Staff are trained in communicating with people with learning or behavioural challenges.
- Uses Plain English / easy read signage and information (includes menus and emergency information)
- A quiet space is available at the venue/ facility.
Vision
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- Information in large print is available.
- Uses easy to read fonts in their signage and communication materials (Helvetica and Arial).
- An appropriate area for toileting an assistance dog is available.
- Exit signs which are visible at a ground level (high level signs are difficult to see in a fire) are available.
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- Uses floors/coverings which are slip resistant, firm and smooth
- Uses non-slip tiles in the bathroom or slip resistant matting
- Grab rails in the bathroom
- Seating in common areas including reception area
Physical – Wheelchair
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- Step free outdoor pathways (includes picnic areas, barbecues and shelters)
- A step free main entrance to the building and/or reception area (includes ramps or slopes with a maximum gradient of 1:14, otherwise are too steep for wheelchairs)
- Step free access to restaurant, lounge and bar
- Accessible seating areas in theatrette
- Doorways which are easy to open and have lever handles (doorways 850mm or wider when open and not heavy).
- An accessible public toilet which is unlocked.
- A wheelchair accessible toilet / shower and change room is available.
- At least one wheelchair accessible parking space with wheelchair accessible signage clearly displayed (International standards are 3200mm wide x 2500 mm high).
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