The Cow Up a Tree
Went to the Docklands today and saw this rather cute art installation. It is called Cow Up A Tree. The story behind is that many years ago, a violent flood swept up herds of cattle in the Gippsland area of Victoria before subsiding and revealing the carcass of a cow stranded at the top of a tree.
The work also makes reference to Australian artist William Dobell who, during World War II, served as a camouflage labourer and worked on papier-mache cows that were moved around the base of airfields in the hope of fooling Japanese pilots. This work came about upon the artist contemplating what would happen during a flood on Dobell’s airfield.
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