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Peloton exhibition on Cockatoo Island


Drawing Lines in the Sand
Saturday 18 February 2012, 2-4pm

19 February - 18 March 2012

daily, 11am - 4pm
Julia Davis, Elizabeth Day, Christian Edwardes, Lisa Jones + Derek Allan, Geoff Kleem, and Adam Norton
Curator: Claire Taylor
Website: www.peloton.net.au/t/projects
Contact: 0410 161 841





Drawing Lines in the Sand presents six installation projects that engage with various aspects of Cockatoo Island’s institutional heritage and topography. They consider the island as a historic, tangible place and a symbolic space more broadly. What connects them is a reflection on conditions of interiority and exteriority in a uniquely Australian context. The exhibition examines the legacy of what Elizabeth McMahon describes as, “the Western colonialist tropism of island territories as condensed sites of acquisition, containment and control,” from a perspective that encompasses contradictory and conflicting extremes, articulating a geographic imaginary particular to the Island Continent.


Visitors can explore a Virtual Reality Simulator, take a walk through a forest of scaffolding, follow a journey descending into a saltmine, hear a ghost of the many machines that once were deafening within the island’s workshops, and perhaps get lost within a giant drawing.


The exhibition is open daily 11am–4pm. For more information contact 0410 161841, drawinglinesinthesand@gmail.com, or visit www.peloton.net.au/t/projects.

For general Peloton enquiries, contact the gallery 02 9690 2601, info@peloton.net.au. For transport information visit www.sydneyferries.info/timetables/cockatoo-island.htm. Cockatoo Island offers accommodation, venue hire, major events, exhibitions, tours, a waterfront kiosk, BBQ and picnic areas and business tenancy. The Visitor Centre is open daily from 10am–4pm and entry is free. Visit www.cockatooisland.gov.au for more information.