Nicholas Mangan

Nauru - Between A Rock and A Hard Place

Presented at Level 2 Projects, Art gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Australia.

HD Video in colour, looped duration, coral rock sample from the island of Nauru, wooden crate, vitrines containing photographs, email correspondence with the government of Nauru, copies of travel visa's and collected material concerning the history of Nauru, coconuts, plastic water drums palm tree shaped air freshener.

No Man is an Island pdf

Nauru reference images:

Coral limestone pinnacles, Nauru House entry court, Melbourne Australia 2003

Removal of limestone coral pinnacles Nauru House entry court, Melbourne Australia.

The piece of rock that led to the discovery of phosphates on the islands of ocean island and Nauru. From Albert F Ellis’s Ocean Island and Nauru; Their story.

A piece of the original Ellis rock taken from Nauru that is now in the Massey Collection New Zealand.

Decomposing Concrete Bunker on the beach, Nauru (from the second world war, built during Japanese occupation)

Agitational cartoon featured in the Age Newspaper Australia, Nov 5th 2005, concerning the Howard governments, pacific solution. Cartoon by Ron Tandberg.

Nauru postal envelope, 30th anniversary of the first manned moon landing. First day of issue 20-7-99.

Areal view of the island of Nauru.

Nauru airport Tarmac made from crushed coral.

Nauru hostesses boarding air Nauru Boeing 737 1982. (Photo, John Laming)

Bulldozer Nauru.