Reconciliation Place
This is a project that I worked on for the Federal Government. It's situated at Reconciliation Place which is in the area between the National Library and the High Court of Australia. Each of the structures are referred to as "Slivers". They are made of stainless steel and glass and are sitting on a concrete plinth. My part was to supply and fit the glass.
This is Sliver 1. It has five panels of slumped 12mm starfire glass all of different shapes to follow the contours of the sliver. The height of each piece of glass is approximately 2200mm. The words for "baby" from the different aboriginal languages are painted onto the back of the glass.
This shows the angles that the glass was on and pattern matching. This is a sandblasted panel with a clear window to show the glass cooliman behind it. A cooliman is a basket for putting a baby in (so I'm told). This one I made from slumped glass decorated with an aboriginal design using ceramic inks.
Sliver 2. This consists of an inner layer and an outer layer of decorated glass separated and held in place by a stainless steel frame. The sunset on the inner panels has been sprayed on then baked while the outer panels are screen printed then baked.
This end panel is supported only by the glass on the sides.
These shots show detail of the screen printing with the sunset panels behind.
Two more shots of the screen printing detail.
Sliver 3. This had two panels of glass which were screen printed and sandblasted.
Sliver 4. This panel had a historic document sandblasted onto it.
Sliver 5. This sliver used the biggest panels of glass, the biggest being 2800mm x 1400mm. The glass for this sliver has been slumped to match the background picture.
The front of the glass has been sandblasted with aboriginal spirit creatures. At night the sliver is lit from below causing the sandblasting to glow.
