"Folly for Mrs Macquarie" by Fiona Hall, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

            Folly for Mrs Macquarie by Fiona Hall is a contemporary `folly’ drawing upon historical, geographic and cultural aspects of the time and rule of Governor Macquarie and his wife, Elizabeth. Located in front of the grounds of Government House looking over to Mrs Macquarie’s Point and through to the heads of the Harbour, the artwork implies an element of folly in the optimistic act of superimposing old world traditions onto foreign surroundings. Lachlan Macquarie governed in Sydney from 1810 to 1821. He and his wife arrived with a pattern-book for buildings in the Neo-Classical style and a desire to transform the colony. A sketch from the period indicates that Mrs Macquarie had a folly constructed. Formal elements are expressed in the neo-classical gothic style favoured by the Macquaries and include a range of references – indigenous and introduced plant species, early colonial tools, the clasped dagger from Macquarie’s crest and fencing. The false ceiling represents interlocking animal bones of native species which would once have inhabited the site, while the structure of the Gothic windows represents the barbed wire that divided up the land. Sunken seating provides a place to pause, sit and contemplate the views over the Harbour. Fiona Hall is a prominent artist based in Adelaide, South Australia. She works in photography, sculpture, painting, installation, garden design and video. Hall’s choice of material, and the way she uses it, is critical to her art. She deliberately transforms ordinary everyday objects to address a range of contemporary issues such as globalisation, consumerism, colonialism and natural history. The core theme throughout Hall’s work is the relationship between nature and culture. 5245
   

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