ART PROJECTS At the heart of our research has been the consideration of the material potential of the trees and how to assess what’s useable and how best to transform the timber into appropriate, conceptually innovative, creative outcomes. The two main materials we are working with, paper and wood, both have extraordinary art and design histories and extraordinary creative production values. In order to both celebrate and commemorate the trees and their site, the projects and artists we have identified as potential participants for these projects all have a strong conceptual engagement with the materials, site and histories they work with. In order to reference the University’s research focus and history, we have identified artists with a strong research element to their practice, as well as nationally significant artists that are University alumni (from the VCA). Further to this we have identified a range of international artists renowned for their groundbreaking work in relation to the natural world and contemporary issues, such as ecology, time and culture/nature based art work. We have identified the following four projects through our research that we believe will deliver the highest and best response to the removal of the trees and the subsequent use of the material, site and context to create a suite of truly innovative and memorable creative artworks. They are: LOGOS TIME THE WAITING ROOM COMMISSIONS
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