NOX and the Outdoor Gallery

Since the first Trimester of the year ended I've been preparing for NOX and outdoor sculpture festival within UNSW Art and Design. This opportunity almost wasn't available to me but I'm really glad I was able to take part in it after all. During Covid this event is the closest I will get to a holiday, although it will be more of a business trip. NOX is an outdoor environmentally friendly exhibition that goes for three nights in Randwick Environmental Park which is a suburb in the CBD Sydney. Since this is a student opportunity and the first outdoor exhibiting opportunity I have it has made me think about other exhibiting opportunities like this. So I went to Sculpture Walk at Scenic World this weekend. It's an amazing event and it makes me exited about a new avenue now available in my career and to think NOX was almost going to be scrapped due to covid, I am really glad my lecturer fought for this event to go ahead. Sculpture Walk at Scenic World is a sculptural event that is most like NOX due to the fact they run the event in an environmentally friendly way amongst nature that is protected. There's also Sculptures By the Sea, and Rookwood Sculpture Walk but Scenic Worlds Sculpture Walk is the event I'm most interested getting involved in after NOX. Of course at the moment I'm most excited about getting involved in NOX and the fact that NOX is a once in a life time opportunity for me as it's only available to students. I'll be writing more about how an outdoor exhibition setting is different to an indoor setting in more specific detail during the exhibition. Another interesting element to this exhibition is that I will be the first person to use scent in an outdoor work in NOX so I will be writing about how I've been able to make that happen. It's also the first time I've used scent in a work so this is a first for my practise as well. 

Sculpture Walk at Scenic World really informed me more of how the outdoor artwork works in an outdoor setting, how ambitious an outdoor work can become and how different outdoor curating can be. It's also taught me that your work can either stand out and work or camoflage and work although I prefer site specific works that are noticible enough but still blends in to an outdoor setting to some extent and I think They Paved Paradise and Put Up a Parking Lot does exactly those things. These are just my outdoor exhibiting preferences so far but that is subject to change.