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Ace Artist-in-Residence & The Substation present – EDGE by Luke George

  • 8:00 am - 5:00 pm | Tuesday January 28, 2025
  • Good Chemistry |
  • 47-53 Wentworth Ave.

Looking out across Surry Hills, artist Luke George spent a fortnight designing and crafting “Edge”, an installation that calls upon the building’s origins as one of Australia’s early brickworks (Tyne House brick factory, established 1916). Working with chartreuse-coloured rope and pressed clay bricks salvaged from demolished structures, Luke tied and suspended a group of sculptures that materialise tension, weight and movement on the edge of a breaking point.

“Sometimes when I was hanging out in my temporary home of room 1315, taking in the view of all the other high rises squished together, my body experienced a very unnatural sensation of being situated at a great height, yet in a state of total comfort. Hovering. Held high up in space by iron and bricks working in perfect unison of forces to hold itself, me and the hundreds of other hotel guests safely in suspended luxury. I think of the labourers that built this structure, the hands that moulded and fired the bricks, and the Country that the clay was extracted from.”

See Luke’s work in Good Chemistry, the laneway cafe at Ace Hotel Sydney through February.

Learn more about Ace’s Artist in Residence program here.