Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbour has a fascinating – if checkered – history. A former convict prison, a shipyard and a reformatory for wayward girls, the island also has a fascinating present as the site of a new installation by Swiss artist Urs Fischer…
Urs Fischer’s work is characterised by an open and fluid approach to materials and a disregard for practical limitations. The works are a natural extension of Urs Fischer’s lifestyle and studio activities with the inherent implications of romanticism and idealism. The detritus and subliminal experiences of everyday life are allowed to flood freely into the work and remain unrefined…