On Saturdays during the last couple of months, dozens of folk got together in Kings Cross, Sydney’s “colourful” suburb known for its strip clubs, crooked cops and illicit drug trade, to take part in a needle program with a difference.
“I Heart Kings Cross”, part of the City of Sydney’s 2009 Art and About festival, is an initiative of Sydney artist collective Reefknot, who create “site specific & immersive multi-arts installations made from found and recycled materials”.
Led by Reefknot’s Michelle McCosker and Alasdair Nicol, each knitting circle’s participants steadily purl stitched their way through more than 100kg of wool, creating pieces of ”knitting graffiti” designed to gently transform tree trunks, street furniture and other static objects along the normally hard-edged Darlinghurst Road. The results speak for themselves. Another triumph for community-based art.
The installation was officially launched on Saturday October 10. Be sure to check it out before it all gets unravelled on October 26.
Alasdair and Michelle from Reefknot
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