SLOT ON THE ROCKS
Placemaking N.S.W. has commissioned SLOT to present a series of five windows under the title – Curated Windows - in the window of 23 Nurses Walk, The Rocks / Tallowoladah.
December 2022 – April 2023
Window No. 4
Marie McMahon
Toxic Blooms
The Plague, a scourge that ravaged Europe during the middle ages arrived here as part of a global pandemic in January 1900. Rats from ships docked in Sydney Cove/Warrane brought it ashore where the authorities rushed to counter the contagion by cleansing The Rocks of rats. More than a century later, Marie McMahon has rendered the Plague bacterium, as it would be microscopically examined in a petri dish. She celebrates the scientist’s view and offers a historic counterpoint to the efforts of todays cruise ships, berthed at the docks of the same cove to contain the 21st century pandemic, Covid 19.
8 March - 4 April
