Yesterday I participated in Shadowlands run by the UniSA Art, Architecture and Design school for the Adelaide Fringe Festival 2011.
Around 27 students participated in learning the history of Hindley Street and then designing stencil images inspired by the history. The group only had 4 hours from arriving at the lecture on Hindley Street's history to completing the street art.
To transfer the images onto the Hindley Street footpath outside the Kaurna building of UniSA City West campus we used white chalk.
Hindley Street used to be the main street of Adelaide. It was the place to go for a night out, but not in the same sense as today. Though Hindley Street now has a reputation of being full of drunks, clubs and gang fights it used to be a place with fine dining restaurants, cinemas, shops and even an ice skating rink! Back in the days when we were all proud of Hindley Street the King was paraded down that very street and it was also the street all the soldiers marched down after the second world war. Though even then there was a pub on every street corner.
Slowly but surely the shops moved east when Rundle Mall and Rundle Street were created. The cinema's shut down and the ice skating rink was closed. Nothing much was left but pubs and clubs which brought Hindley Street into it's downfall.
This art project was an attempt at bringing back some of the old Hindley Street pride and I know that everyone I was working with was captured by the history of Hindley Street.
25/2/2011 Some of the chalk stenciled images to represent Hindley Street's history. The lower central imaged of three old architectural windows with alcoholic drinks was join project between myself and my partner to show a sample of the beautiful architecture that used be down Hindley Street as well as the old history of pubs on every corner.
25/2/2011 This is myself standing in front of the walk in K5 UniSA where the stencil's were pinned up for display. My stencil appearing just beside my head.
25/2/2011 Shadowlands, the finished product.
More photos on my Additional Art page.
