Glory Days

2010

Glory Days
2010
1972 Holden HQ Kingswood station wagon, steel, body filler, automotive paint
dimensions Variable

Mc Clelland Survey & Award 2010 (Finalist)

‘The old Woody was feelin’ low about the way things had turned out.  It took a while, but at last the ol’ girl decided to do something about it.’

In Glory Days, Jason Waterhouse has taken an Aussie classic, a Holden HQ Kingswood station wagon; ‘The old mechanical hero of family and hoon attempts to get one wheel onto a plinth. The whole chassis has been twisted and the panels seamlessly stretched, as if the metal assembly were organic.  Mounting the artistic platform with a bashfull scowl, the distorted car belongs to the artifice of a cartoon, where the machine is anthropomorphic.’

The Age, Robert Nelson - 27.01.2011