Magical structures in the garden of half-life

Artist Mikala Dwyer's new installation for the University of Sydney will show why her unique treatment of abject materials simply rocks.
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A mineral specimen from the Macleay Museum collection featured in Mikala Dwyer’s The garden of half-life, 2014. 

A new site-specific installation displaying meteorites, minerals and crystals will soon be hosted in the University of Sydney’s art gallery.

The garden of half-life is the new work by Australian artist and Sydney College of the Arts lecturer Mikala Dwyer, and will contain material from a largely unseen University of Sydney collection.

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Matthew Wade
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Matthew Wade is a Master of Journalism student at the University of Melbourne. He has written for the Daily Review, and is on the Melbourne Queer Film Festival selection panel. Follow him on Twitter: @MatthewRWade