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Raewyn Turner has created a fragrant paddock as an Environmental Art Project for the Tawharanui Regional Park.

Raewyn Turner has created a fragrant paddock as an Environmental Art Project for the Tawharanui Regional Park.

Twenty three data points filled with fragranced soil are plotted on the graph of a Phillips curve in a 13m x 47m paddock at Tawharanui. The original simple Philips curve plotted the relationship between the rate of inflation and the unemployment rate between the years 1861 – 1957.  Views on the relative importance of unemployment and inflation heavily influence the policy advice that economists give to policymakers and Governments.

The fragrances reference D. Merrit’s poem:  Curious diets of the poor, down trodden and the so called mentally ill.

The Environmental Art Project is an exhibition of selected site specific installations by Brydee Rood, Sophie Jerram and Raewyn Turner. 

EAP is part of Art in the Woolshed at Tawharanui Regional Park.

The exhibition is open from 10 am to 5 pm daily, from 6 to 14 March 2010. Entry is free.