entwined as others is a collaboration between Helen Hardess and Tiana Jefferies, combining their shared art practices of casting, collecting, assembling and collaborative action. They reference the Old Lock Up’s history as a space of transition, marginalised bodies, punitive architecture and unequal power relations.
The installation’s materials are in part drawn from the margins of usefulness in an attempt to destabilise anthropocentric power relations. Such as:
Blacksmithed metal (by a novice)
Welded steel
Homemade bee hotels (constructed and deconstructed) Hempcrete birdbath (turned over)
Dessicated coffee grounds
Concrete impressions
Plaster reliefs
Salvaged wire
Hand dyed fabric fragments
Native grass bundles
Wax
Partial palm root-ball
Cantilevered dowel and assorted fragments
Bollard base
Mud wasp home
Floor sweepings
Compositions of these objects engage with balance, tension, precarity, dependency and synchronicity. In this way, compositions reflect the qualities of ecosystems and an understanding that they are assemblages of human and non-human actors.





