PINK PONDERING

Designed by a Melbourne-based team comprising architecture firm Taylor Knights in collaboration with artist James Carey, the installation, entitled pond[er], offers a space for visitors to cool off during the summer months and reflect on their relationship with the environment and our shared future living successfully together. The installation, replete with a pink pond evocative of Australia’s inland salt lakes, has been revealed as the winner of the NGV’s 2021 Architecture Commission in the Grollo Equiset Garden at NGV International. The architecture and landscape installation comprises two key design elements: a body of indigenous plants and a body of water. The materials are locally sourced and manufactured, and, wherever possible, are intended to be distributed and used again by various Landcare, Indigenous, and community groups upon deinstallation.