Turbine Shed / past / Cockatoo Island / 10.13 Sydney

Mike Hewson: Turbine Shed - Cockatoo Island, Sydney

Turbine Shed 2013

17 m x 11 m x 13 m
Digital print on semi-opaque vinyl
Cockatoo Island, Sydney

Mike Hewson: (Installation view) - Cockatoo Island, Sydney

(Installation view) 2013

17 m x 11 m x 13 m
Digital print on semi-opaque vinyl
Cockatoo Island, Sydney

Mike Hewson: (Installation view) - Cockatoo Island, Sydney

(Installation view) 2013

17 m x 11 m x 13 m
Digital print on semi-opaque vinyl
Cockatoo Island, Sydney

Mike Hewson: (Installation view) - Cockatoo Island, Sydney

(Installation view) 2013

17 m x 11 m x 13 m
Digital print on semi-opaque vinyl
Cockatoo Island, Sydney

Mike Hewson: (Installation view) - Cockatoo Island, Sydney

(Installation view) 2013

17 m x 11 m x 13 m
Digital print on semi-opaque vinyl
Cockatoo Island, Sydney

Mike Hewson: (Installation view) - Cockatoo Island, Sydney

(Installation view) 2013

17 m x 11 m x 13 m
Digital print on semi-opaque vinyl
Cockatoo Island, Sydney

Mike Hewson: (Installation view) - Cockatoo Island, Sydney

(Installation view) 2013

17 m x 11 m x 13 m
Digital print on semi-opaque vinyl
Cockatoo Island, Sydney

Mike Hewson: (Installation view) - Cockatoo Island, Sydney

(Installation view) 2013

17 m x 11 m x 13 m
Digital print on semi-opaque vinyl
Cockatoo Island, Sydney

Mike Hewson: (Installation view) - Cockatoo Island, Sydney

(Installation view) 2013

17 m x 11 m x 13 m
Digital print on semi-opaque vinyl
Cockatoo Island, Sydney

Mike Hewson: (During installation) - Cockatoo Island, Sydney

(During installation) 2013

17 m x 11 m x 13 m
Digital print on semi-opaque vinyl
Cockatoo Island, Sydney

Info

The Turbine Shed is the largest and most visually dramatic interior space on the Cockatoo Island heritage precinct, Sydney. The site specific installation "Turbine Shed" lowers the 25m high roof structure down to a human-scale ceiling height of 3m.

The digital print 'sail' is suspended over a 17m long footprint of the hall and mirrors the obviously visual features of the space; the skylights and the heavy steel roof truss'. From the design vantage point the installation appears to be hanging vertically, reflecting the main structural feature of the space; the portal frame - two vertical members spanned with a shallow A-frame beam.