Cranky Curlew Productions

Their Second Wind 2023

Painted steel, copper, aluminium, plastic, chrome

Approx. ~2 x ~45 m squared

Not for sale

About the Work

Escaping lives of service and creeping redundancy, these humble, ubiquitous, mundane appliances will no longer churn stale air for humans. They gather at the beach, drawn to the wild, authentic wind. They wait to catch the breeze in their blades and feel their second wind.

Their Second Wind continues the theme of Cranky Curlew’s 2019, award-winning, animated short film: Gone with the Wind.

About the Artist

Cranky Curlew Productions (CCP) are George Hirst and Penelope Sheridan. They roam between installations, photography and public participation art but mostly create DIY no/low-budget films. Pre-CCP, they began and ran the Magnetic Times newspaper and website. George, a Canberra School of Art graduate, had solo and group shows in Canberra and Sydney while working at the National Gallery of Australia and later the (then) New Parliament House Construction Authority Art Collection. Later, in Townsville he curated and toured exhibitions from Perc Tucker Regional Gallery.

Penelope started out creating/performing theatre in education in regional Victoria before joining Townsville’s New Moon Theatre Company in the 1990s. After a few career turns and diving into low budget filmmaking, Penelope headed to New York in 2011 for an intensive film editing course. With several editor credits, awards and film festival laurels, Penelope continues to make films about people and places close to her heart (particularly her home on Yunbenun/ Magnetic Island).