The Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) sits on the shore of the Derwent River in Berriedale, Tasmania. It is the largest privately funded museum in the Southern Hemisphere. MONA houses ancient, modern and contemporary art from the David Walsh collection. Noted for its central themes of sex and death, the museum has been described by Walsh as a "subversive adult Disneyland." MONA was officially opened on 21 January 2011.

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The Museum of Old & New Art (MONA) sits beside the Derwent River at Berriedale, a northern suburb of Hobart, Tasmania.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Old_and_New_Art

Its remarkable building is an architectural achievement, carved as it is out of the sandstone base on which the Moorilla winery is located.

The architect was Nonda Katsalidis, and his major brief was to preserve two Sir Roy Grounds houses originally on the property, one of which housed the original Moorilla Museum of Antiquities founded in 2001 by Tasmanian entrepreneur, David Walsh. Consequently the major part of the gallery is entirely underground, though one enters through one of the original Roy Grounds buildings (albeit shielded by a distorting reflective mirror and a tennis court!). The tennis court was David Walsh's personal touch, as he describes it in his memoir, "A Bone of Fact".

The above ground parts of the building are clad in rusting steel, as indeed are some of the large sculptures on site. For the photographer the tonal range, line and slightly skewed perspective make it a dream to shoot - even if on this day the rain was falling quite heavily outside.

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Wim Delvoye's Chapel is a self-described blasphemous temple. It features stained glass windows that contain what appears like x-rays of body parts. Its Gothic appearance only adds to the mystery.
mona.net.au/museum/outdoor-art/wim-delvoye-chapel-outdoor...

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Another Wim Delvoye sculpture (in rusting steel) is "Flatbed Truck, Trailer and Cement Truck".
mona.net.au/museum/outdoor-art/wim-delvoye-flatbed-truck-...

Expressing a theme that runs right through MONA, it embodies temporality and impermanence. Slowly it is rusting away.

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If you look straight up three floors in the main atrium you can see the original foundations of one of the Roy Grounds buildings. As I pointed my camera up, the lights pointing to this ceiling projected my faint shadow onto the stone. I thought that was cool anyway.

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