ARTISTS Frances Carlile and Amy Sterly are creating a site specific installation at The Sidney Nolan Trust at The Rodd, using part of the property’s ancient farm buildings to explore and question the idea of the house and develop it as a sculptural motif.

Amy and Frances will make two parallel house structures, one exterior and one interior.

The exterior house will be skeletally constructed out of coppiced wood from Rodd Wood.

The interior house, adjacent to it, will be made by making small temporary alterations to a farm building. Each house will explore the translation of everyday objects from the familiar to the unfamiliar.

The exterior house will contain a collection of sculptural domestic objects based on things found in the home. In the interior house, objects will be translated into two dimensions through the medium of a large format print.

It will be possible to enter both houses.

The project grew out of Amy and Frances’s experience of working at the Sidney Nolan Trust, where they were inspired by the magnitude and beauty of the timber framed buildings of The Rodd.

It seemed a natural development to translate one of these buildings into a sculptural work using resources from Rodd Wood and to incorporate three media into one piece of work.

Drawing on the Domestic, a site-specific installation in sculpture and print, runs until Sunday, September 15, 10.30am to 5pm daily at the Tithe Barn Courtyard.

Admission is free.

Frances and Amy will be at the Opening of the Sidney Nolan Trust h.Art exhibition on Thursday, September 5, from 6pm-8pm, when there will be an informal “walk and talk” during which they’ll share their residency experiences and outcomes.

This project is supported by Arts Council England and the Sidney Nolan Trust.