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Shaun Kirby - Thylacine Art Project's, Talking our way home, 2005, glass, stainless steel and paint

Talking our way home

Shaun Kirby - Thylacine Art Projects

Talking Our Way Home was created by critically acclaimed artist and Samstag Scholar, Shaun Kirby.

Kirby immigrated with his family to Adelaide by ship from the UK in the mid-1960s and spent a short time at the then Elder Park Migrant Hostel in the vicinity of where the glass boats are placed.

The artworks quite literally ‘float on the margin between the intimate and secret dimension of private experience, and its expression in the public realm’. The work engages with significant social and cultural issues in a poetic and playful way, without being an overbearing or pedantic presence in the landscape.

River Torrens/ Karrawirra Pari, Adelaide

Year Produced

2005

Materials

Glass, stainless steel and paint

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