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Venerated Remains

Originally a swampland that had been reconfigured as a lake, Lake Mokoan was in the process of being transformed into Winton wetlands when I visited in 2009. The shallow, often dry lake bed provided a wealth of detritus, and the gathering and transforming of these remains became a way to memorialise the lake at a particular moment in history.
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Venerated Remains Trio, 2012
Mud, lace, fish bones and scales, gold leaf
​on mirrored aluminium base.
46 x 60 x 20 cms
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Venerated Remains Trio 2, 2012
Mud, lace, fish bones, gold leaf
​on mirrored aluminium base.
​53 x 60 x 65 cms
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Venerated Remains, 2012
Nine objects mud, lace, fish bones and scales, gold leaf on mirrored aluminium and steel table.
​132 x 230 x 65 cms
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Artefacts: Lake Mokoan (scales) ​2010. Irrigation pipe, aluminium can,
​fish bones and scales,
​hand blown bell jar.
58 x 25 x 25 cms
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Artefacts: Lake Mokoan (cross) ​2010. Irrigation pipe, fish bones and scales, rope, shotgun shells,
fishing line, mesh,
​hand blown bell jar.
​55 x 26 x 26 cms
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Artefacts: Lake Mokoan (bone heads) 2010 
Irrigation pipe, aluminium can,
​fish bones and scales, fishing tackle,
​hand blown bell jar.
​66 x 25 x 25 cms
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Artefacts: Lake Mokoan (snake tube) 2010. Irrigation pipe, aluminium can, rope, hand blown bell jar.
52 x 27 x 27 cms
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Artefacts: Lake Mokoan (rabbits) 2010. Irrigation pipe, bones, rope, fishing tackle, shotgun shells, mesh, lace, mud, hand blown bell jar.
​58 x 25 x 25 cms
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Artefacts: Lake Mokoan (feathers) 2010. Irrigation pipe, rope, feathers,
ring pull, drip tube, mud,
hand blown bell jar.
58 x 28 x 28 cms
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