I did some research into the history of the wine cask and bladder and what I discovered is that it's a South Australian invention!
So in 1965 the winemakers at Angroves winery wanted to emulate a tradition European wine sack, so they created a polyethylene bag, which was a kind of modern twist on the traditional European idea. The bag would have to be cut open at the corner and resealed with a special peg.
Then in 1967 Penfolds decided to improve on this by adding the airless flow tap that is welded into a metallised plastic bag. This is the model of wine bladder that we are familiar with today.
Pushing this innovation.
Just recently in 2012 Accolade wines used this principle of the wine bladder and applied it to their huge export industry. Previously, wine was shipped in bottles to the UK, a 20 ft container would carry a 9,900 L of bottled wine. Now, these 20 ft container ship 24,000 L of wine in one enormous wine bladder. This method of exporting wine is far more cost efficient as Accolade wines is no longer paying to ship bottles, but instead more wine! Because of this wine is sold at a cheaper price, and the sales in the UK have increased dramatically. The wine bladder is a gem of an invention that is doing wonders for the wine industry and the South Australian economy!
Not only were they invented in SA, they are produced in SA. This is almost enough to make me want to buy more of this product....
Experiments
1. Here I was fascinated by the idea that the flow of wine had increased between Australia and other countries, particularly the UK. So I created a work that could reference wine flowing.
Firstly I had to think of what shape I wanted the wine bladders to form to achieve a sort of movement. I thought that rolling the wine bladders could create a sort of continuous movement effect.
I struggled finding material that would help me to make these shapes, then I got into the duct tape and found some success.
I started arranging these shapes and I discovered that by using the different surfaces of the rolled object I could create a change in pattern that could effectively reference dispersing liquid.
I think that against a window with the reflection this arrangement gets a bit lost, I really quite like How I have changed the perception of the wine bladder here, I think that this could be a lot more effective on a really large scale.. or if the installation did stay this size, the individual rolls would be a lot smaller and more detailed.
2. In this experiment I wanted to play with making an object related to the wine bladders, just to comment on the function of the wine bladder. I also wanted it to be slightly silly. So this is my attempt at making a huge wine glass out of wine bladders. The export industry benefited greatly from using wine bladders opposed to glass.. this does not apply here.
This was quite a simple novel design, but assembling it actually took a lot of time.
I used my breath to inflate the objects and then used a hot glue gun to stick and build up the shape. This was a challenging step as I had to hold the objects together with the glue until the glue had completely dried to be sure that the objects were stuck together... this took a lot of time.
The novel part of this design is grounded in the idea that I could use this inflated goon bag wine glass to make a toast, to South Australian invention and innovation. Cheers!
I think its kind of fun but aesthetically is pretty gross! and this is where I realised that I want to make something that could potentially by a beautiful form or shape.. which means deconstruction time!
3. Deconstruction
This is more of an installation piece I think, I created an interesting surface that I kind of imagine lining the ceiling of weird spacy room. Ideally I would have liked to line my whole ceiling with this series of experiments, but I couldn't slice up all of my object as I needed the material whole for my final idea!
I really like the transformation that the object underwent in this experiment, for me this is where I started pushing my ideas further. This deconstruction process was an integral part of experimentation as so many qualities were revealed, such as the interior transparent wine bladder.
4. Shredder
I really liked this object, I think its fun there is just something party like about it.. so i wanted to breathe some life into it just to explore this form further by animating it!
The spiralle rose
.. the intentions behind this experiment weren't to create a rose, I was trying to make a continuous circular pattern but the material wouldn't arrange in a circular pattern, it bunched out doing its own thing. Suddenly it resembled a rose - so i put it in the garden.
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