“Darkness at the Edge of Town”
Jessica Russell
12 Mar → 27 Mar 2004

Found on the outskirts to rural communities, the Gateway sign provides an introduction to a space about to unfold. It serves as a landmark, indicating a border, a place of periphery, alerting us to a change about to take place in the landscape.

These structures span the country, linking time and place together. Relics from the past, they pose as a monument to a time gone by, imparting history and memory onto our perception of space as nostalgia mediates the unknown with the familiar.

Jessica Russell Graduated from RMIT Sculpture in 2002.

This exhibition was generously supported by the City of Melbourne through its Arts Grants Program.

Photography by Christian Capurro