For Year 3 at Jupiter Artland we have allowed the land to rest. For a whole year there has been no earth moving scarring the land and it has healed itself allowing the works of 2010 to sit naturally in the woods. It’s over time that we are learning the benefits of getting to know the work well. The challenging work of Nathan Coley has settled into the landscape – no less confronting but more at home. We have finally finished the “Cells of Life” landform and to celebrate we have asked Charles Jencks to show his studio works. These studio works inform his landscape practice and illuminate his humour and playfulness but also his serious investigations into rocks, cosmos and science.
Visitors to Jupiter Artland are given a map indicating the location of the artworks within the grounds. But there's no set route. Clockwise or anticlockwise is your choice. As is a left turn here or a right turn there; or the retracing of steps for a second look. The artworks are land marks, events, confrontations on a journey of discovery; an open-ended journey. If you enjoy Jupiter Artland we hope you will return. If you do, over time, you will come across new installations in the park and hopefully come to appreciate more fully the concept of this unfolding story or continual work-in-progress.
