The Tylee Cottage residency programme is the source of many of the contemporary works in the Sarjeant collection. This work by Joanna Langford, who did the residency in 2007, is a model for a larger installation she presented that year in the Sarjeant Gallery’s distinctive dome gallery using recycled and ephemeral materials to create a dreamy cloud city of floating and precariously cobbled together structures.
For many years, it was the Sarjeant’s popular replica sculpture, 'The Wrestlers', that primarily occupied pride of place in the centre of the building under the dome. Although there had been previous projects in this space, in 1979 artist Billy Apple presented a project in the dome gallery that, amongst other requests, asked that The Wresters be permanently moved to a less prominent spot. Having then made the space available, a byproduct of Apple’s critique of the Sarjeant’s displays was the inauguration of a new series of dome gallery installations by contemporary artists. Essentially enabled by Apple, Langford’s project was the 31st official dome installation in this series, which concluded in 2013 when the gallery closed for earthquake strengthening, the last being Sarah Maxey’s 'Comeback'.
- Andrew Clifford, for the My Choice Exhibition series, April 2023

Maquette for "Down from the Nightlands", an installation in the dome of the Sarjeant Gallery, Nov24, 2007 - Feb, 24 2008, which was the result of the artist's tenure as Tylee Cottage artist-in-residence from June - November 2007.