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El Anatsui: Australia’s first look at Africa’s Golden Lion

Third world liquor bottle caps are transformed into artworks that earned Ghanian artist El Anatsui the international lifetime achievement award at the Venice Biennale.

13 Jan 2016

Gina Fairley

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Visual Arts

Installation view El Anatsui: Five Decades, a Schwartz Carriageworks Project, Sydney 2016; Photo ArtsHub

The first major exhibition of the Ghanian artist El Anatsui to be presented in Australia is being staged at Carriageworks as part of the Sydney Festival.

Anatsui is well-known for his large-scale sculptures composed of thousands of flattened and folded scrap metal elements, usually bottle caps sourced from local African alcohol and stitched together with copper wire.

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Gina Fairley

Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's National Visual Arts Editor. For a decade she worked as a freelance writer and curator across Southeast Asia and was previously the Regional Contributing Editor for Hong Kong based magazines Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. Prior to writing she worked as an arts manager in America and Australia for 14 years, including the regional gallery, biennale and commercial sectors. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Twitter: @ginafairley Instagram: fairleygina