Spatial marker (Canterbury Bells Shenanigan Cocktail) 2016

Summary

Melbourne-based artist Geoff Robinson works with sound and site to aurally map environments and to explore the sound potential of materials and technologies. Working with musicians and performers, he reconfigures environments through intense sound experiments that effectively create community through shared aural spaces. In 2015, the City of Melbourne acquired three of Robinson's sculptures through the annual Westspace fundraiser. These slender, multi-colour timber works, each titled 'Spatial Marker' and two metres in height, resemble the poles used by surveyors in plotting and measuring territory. It is a sculptural typology that features through Robinson's sound-installation series 'Site Overlay/Acoustic Survey'. As well as holding these three works in its Art and Heritage Collection, the City of Melbourne awarded Geoff Robinson a Laneways Commission in 2009.