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A millstone used at Thomas West's Barcom Glen water mill on Gadigal Country/Paddington, New South Wales, Australia, c.1812-1830. Vesicular basalt with dressed (carved) faces, metal pallets, foam-covered chocks. Lent by the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney. Presented by Mr Edward T West, Mrs E M Loder and Mrs A B Ellis, 1906. Collection object number C4011. Photograph: Nick Croggon

Mitchel Cumming and Kenzee Patterson: A redistribution


25 Feb 2023
⬤ Verge Gallery 16 Feb - 31 Mar 2023

Weighing down the floor of Verge Gallery at the University of Sydney are two massive stone discs. Pocked and tarnished with age, they crouch low to the ground on unglamorous metal pallets, the sides smooth and the top worked into a system of furrows that move outwards from a hole in the middle.

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Artists: Mitchel Cumming, Kenzee Patterson, Simryn Gill

Nick Croggon is an art historian, writer and editor based on Gadigal and Wangal land. He is Events and Programs Officer at the Power Institute, and is completing a PhD at Columbia University, New York.

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