Hang Hold Ascend - Christine Collins

Hang Hold Ascend by SA artist Christine Collins - Finalist in the 2024 Heysen Prize for Landscape.

‘Hang, Hold, Ascend’ is a triptych of jewellery forms which consider the confluence of industry, community and bush within the landscape of Broken Hill. The landscape is dominated by a large iconic black slag heap located immediately behind the town square. Among the slag and skimp dumps, a few tenacious weeds and salt bush manage to grow. Within 100 meters of the slag heap are civic buildings and homes. The bush creeps in amongst it all. The works incorporate and compose found materials from the area: what might be considered the material residue of industry (slag – mining waste), community (rusted patterned architectural tin) and bush (cast saltbush samples). The composition of the works is informed by the Miners Memorial, which sits atop the slag heap. It is a tribute to the many lives lost in mining. A beacon perhaps of the broader sacrifice and tenacity of the community, nature and land.

Materials: Broken Hill found Slag (mining waste) and rust, sterling silver 
Dimensions (cm): Group of three jewellery pieces. Central elements dimensions. 10.5 x 6 x 1.5 (left), 11.5 x 10.5 x 1.8 (centre), 10 x 6.2 x 1.8 (right)

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