Undercliff Vineyard, Wollombi, Hunter Valley, NSW

Dimensions approx. 20m long x 1.2m wide

Materials: wine bottles of different shades of green.

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As in other works, I use minimal interventions to point to and enlarge the span of the viewer’s gaze over the environment they find themselves in and the activities that take place there.

At Undercliff Vineyard, which houses a cellar door, I use the wine bottle to suggest an interface between human activity and natural elements.

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I configure the bottles in such a way as to zipper up the lake, thereby defining the body of water and the island contained within it. This zipper, or stripe, which merges colours of the bottles with those of the surrounding terrain, is intended to prompt the viewer to move long its path, taking in details of the landscape through which it courses.

 

The line of the ‘zipper’ parallels the rows of grapevines close by. The title is indicative of the interaction of the between the natural elements and the work itself, which is responsive to the movement of wind on water, and reflection of light.