Artist: Graham Gilchrist
Artwork Name: Windrift
Medium: timber, stainless steel
Date Created: 1997
The artist was motivated by environmental concerns. He felt lake life was under threat: ‘Industrial chimneys are polluting the environment,’ he observed. The sculpture combines the industrial and the organic with staunch uprights suggesting chimney stacks, and silhouettes of stainless steel animal and plant life, rippled by the wind. This engaging work was created and installed during the artist’s residency in 1997.
Graham Gilchrist was a well-respected artist and academic in the Hunter region. His work was largely inspired by the landscape of the region and related environmental concerns.
Donated by the artist's family, 2007.