Urban Fringe Vessels continue an exploration into the industrial urban fringe of Melbourne where I live and work and my place within and relationship to it. The works bring together two features of the landscape; industrial forms and expanses of grassland, and reference how they co-exist and influence each other.

The interjection of large forms of industry, such as tanks, silos and processing plants, become almost sculptural monuments to human industry. These stud gently undulating expanses of green land. Some of this greenery is significant remnant grass and wetlands offering important habitat to threatened and resident species. Other parts of this greenery are hillocks surrounding fill sites, land sitting idle during decontamination processes or pockets of farmland.

The vessels seek to capture the starkness of the juxtaposition of these two opposing features, and highlight the continued complexities around how we occupy and care for our environment.