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35°south, 150°east  2022
recycled hardwood, brass, glass, acrylic paint, gold leaf
960 x 700 x 400mm   24.4kg

Brandt Noack artist designer, 35° south 150° east, George Bass, Jervis Bay Maritime Museum, Halloran Collection, maritime sculpture, maritime ephemera, a desire for adventure, wooden sculpture
Brandt Noack artist designer, 35° south 150° east, George Bass, Jervis Bay Maritime Museum, Halloran Collection, maritime sculpture, maritime ephemera, a desire for adventure, wooden sculpture
Brandt Noack artist designer, 35° south 150° east, George Bass, Jervis Bay Maritime Museum, Halloran Collection, maritime sculpture, maritime ephemera, a desire for adventure, wooden sculpture
Brandt Noack artist designer, 35° south 150° east, George Bass, Jervis Bay Maritime Museum, Halloran Collection, maritime sculpture, maritime ephemera, a desire for adventure, wooden sculpture
Brandt Noack artist designer, 35° south 150° east, George Bass, Jervis Bay Maritime Museum, Halloran Collection, maritime sculpture, maritime ephemera, a desire for adventure, wooden sculpture

George Bass entering Jervis Bay in 1797

Brandt Noack artist designer, 35° south 150° east, George Bass, Jervis Bay Maritime Museum, Halloran Collection, maritime sculpture, maritime ephemera, a desire for adventure, wooden sculpture

The Halloran Collection - Jervis Bay Maritime Museum

Brandt Noack artist designer, 35° south 150° east, George Bass, Jervis Bay Maritime Museum, Halloran Collection, maritime sculpture, maritime ephemera, a desire for adventure, wooden sculpture

design sketches

Brandt Noack artist designer, 35° south 150° east, George Bass, Jervis Bay Maritime Museum, Halloran Collection, maritime sculpture, maritime ephemera, a desire for adventure, wooden sculpture

design sketches

35° south, 150° east is a shortlisted competition entry in which the brief is to represent the Jervis Bay Maritime Museum's "Halloran Collection".  The collection contains a diverse range of scientific and maritime instruments, artworks and "bits and pieces".  Prominent surveyor and developer, Henry Halloran started the collection in 1890 and his son kept adding to it until the late 1980's.
Inspired by the  collection’s painting of George Bass entering Jervis Bay in his tiny whaleboat in 1797,  I felt in awe of Bass’ achievement.   I sensed Halloran felt the same way, not only of Bass, but of other maritime explorers and sailors.  He showed this in his collection of maritime ephemera.
The work expresses Halloran’s interest in location - placement and positioning and, maritime exploration.  It embodies “a desire for adventure”, something that Bass had plenty of!  The gilded bicorn hat is the figurehead of British colonialism, upright and confident.  The tiller always points to bow.
There are hints of precision navigational instruments, such as sextants, telescopes and spirit levels, pared back to their minimal “brass and glass” forms.  These hints are contained in a vessel which in plan is one sixth of a circle - the measurement of a sextant, and embodies the lines of latitude and longitude – the geometry of location.

Picture
Jervis Bay Maritime Museum Halloran Contemporary Art Prize 2022 exhibition
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    • sculpture >
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        • south coast fishing boats
        • 35°south, 150°east
        • Sydney ferries
        • the tuna fleet
        • south coast fishing
      • tiny - desk sculptures
      • anemone >
        • grapes
        • squirt
        • nudi
        • tentacle
        • jewel
      • wind towers
      • seaweed fruits 2 >
        • crayweed
        • giant kelp
        • fanweed
      • spherical appendages
      • seaweed fruits
      • bits and pieces
    • nest boxes >
      • bee box
      • bee tower
      • microbat box
      • bird & marsupial nest box
    • furniture >
      • skinny table
      • skinny cupboard/plant stand
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