Wales Rocks Sydney - NSW, Australia

Project - Wales Rocks Sydney a contemporary showcase of Wales 2003
Client - Wales Assembly Government
Designers - Angela Gidden & Lynsey Jackson

Angela Gidden was commissioned to create a contemporary showcase within the Museum of Contemporary Art in Circular Quays Sydney. The brief included a key element - genealogy.
The exhibition took place within the American Express Hall in the museum. We designed a reusable cocoon structure in order to envelop 'an experience of Wales - the landscape, the people, the soul, and sound of Wales' in a contemporary context.

The entrance to the main exhibition experience - a purpose designed and constructed aluminium truss structure within which an abstract graphic map of Wales was laid to the floor, a short film commissioned with a piece of music composed specially were played on a loop, a gallery of people in Wales with the 10 most popular surnames was presented. The whole space evoked a spirit of Wales and drew people in to enable connections to be made.