Image Credit: Jenni Carter
Artwork information
- Title: Sedimentary Earth Core, 2025
- Artist: Benjamin Muir
- Location: Gadigal Reserve, Summer Hill
- Material: Recycled brick, slate, concrete, terracotta, and clay tiles
Proudly funded by the NSW Government in association with Inner West Council
Artist Statement
The columns stand as core samples, exposing the rich tapestry of earth underneath our feet. Mineral layers formed over millions of years - folding, faulting and metamorphosing from the weight of one another. Waterways cut these layers over millenia, moving toward the sea, carrying sediment. The artwork reconstitutes geological layers, using recycled terracotta clay, quartzite and slate gravel within pigmented cement stabilized sediments imitating the unique geology of the Sydney Basin. Blue-grey slates and shales from the flat lands, glistening blonde and rust from uncovered sandstone of headlands and mountains, smooth terracotta from iron-rich clay deposited by river systems folded together. Proudly funded by the NSW Government in association with Inner West Council
Artist Biography
Benjamin Muir is interested in the intersection of Art, Architecture and the natural world around us. With a focus on recycled and waste materials, his practice creating buildings and works which not only relate to their context but could not exist in any other. He grew up in the Northern Beaches of Sydney but has lived in the Inner West for the past 10 years.