Commissioned for the 2020 Centenary Celebrations, Karlgarin, Western Australia. Located at Stafford Park, Melba St, Karlgarin
The Family Home - Tania Spencer
The sculpture is a scaled model of the house I grew up in. It is crocheted in wire and the frame is welded metal. The granite rocks, fence wire and jam posts in this sculpture were sourced from the home farm.
Work Statement
After arriving in Karlgarin in 1928, my grandfather Bert Richter and his brother Cyril built this house constructed of cement bricks made onsite on Hillview Farm in 1938. Three generations of Richter’s lived here and my brothers and I grew up in this house. The tall salmon gum on the hill on the Kondinin road on Hillview Farm near the front gate was the site of the first hall, shop and football oval and is 6km west of the current townsite of Karlgarin.
The rock and wire strainer posts of the sheepyards and many of the fence strainers are still standing in the rockhill paddocks on the farm, a testament to the pioneering strength of my heritage.
Tania Spencer (nee Richter)
- Subject Matter: sculpture, crochet
- Collections: Public Art, Commissioned Works & Collections, Sculpture - In the Environment , Wallworks - Drawings