<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <docID>329820</docID> <postdate>2024-09-26 15:14:28</postdate> <headline>Magical new sculpture honours retiring Maloon</headline> <body><p><img class="size-full wp-image-329821" src="https://citynews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Rogers-left-with-Maloon-centre-and-Tony-Oates-with-Shallows-2016-waxed-steel-installed-in-the-forecourt-of-the-ANU-Drill-Hall-Gallery-2024.-Photo-Helen-Musa.jpg" alt="" width="900" height="600" /></p> <caption>Rogers, left, with Maloon, centre, and Tony Oates with Shallows, 2016, waxed steel, installed in the forecourt of the ANU Drill Hall Gallery. Photo: Helen Musa</caption> <p><strong>West Civic has a magical new sculpture, Shallows, gifted to the ANU Drill Hall Gallery by the artist James Rogers and art collector Geoffrey Hassall in honour of its recently-retired director, Terence Maloon.</strong></p> <p>The joint gift is intended to acknowledge the Drill Hall Gallery’s ongoing dedication to abstract sculpture as well as Maloon's contribution to Australian art.</p> <p>At an informal gathering in the forecourt of the Drill Hall last Saturday, Rogers threw light on Maloon's curatorial gift to artists in having articulated their work over a long period of time, both in Sydney and Canberra.</p> <p>Under Maloon’s watch from 2013, the gallery has turned into a centre for Australian art and a cultural hub for Canberra, even becoming an in-demand location for high quality jazz, vocal and contemporary music.</p> <p>Likening his sculpture to musical composition, Rogers said, “There’s a disruption of any expected regularity and symmetry … You establish a sense of a developing pattern and then you subvert its regularity … you set up sequences, cadences, currents of incidents almost like notes of music, but you displace the notes.â€</p> <p>Nowadays working out of his studio at Walcha, NSW, Rogers saw himself as “landlocked but linked to the ocean and the sea,†hence the title of Shallows.</p> <p>Maloon told those present he was proud to have been part of the Drill Hall Gallery and that while his big dream was to have the ANU to erect a purpose-built gallery to house its art collection, what he cared about most was “what was possible.â€</p> </body>