Newport Railway Station, Melbourne (1995)

Newport Railway Station, Melbourne (1995)
Collaboration with Enver Çamdal and Adnan Esen

“Newport was from the 1870s, the home of railways workshops and a key centre for train building and repairs in Victoria. By the 1990s much of this industry had ceased and the surrounding suburb was changing through migration and the arrival of new communities and the first tentative steps toward gentrification. Our project was commissioned by the Hobson’s Bay Council who wanted to create a work by the Newport Station. Developed in two stages a team made up of Enver Camdal, Fiona Tinney and me, we undertook a consultation process as a first stage of creating the art work. After numerous workshops and platform activities at the station, the idea of making a work about de-industrialisation came forward as the obvious direction. Over the next eight months we worked in a studio at the Newport Railway Workshops to create components of the installation. Our plan was to make use of the huge Melbourne road overpass and transform it – along with the pedestrian tunnel – into a giant broken machine.” – Geoff Hogg, Repeatable Shape, 2010.