Material: Australian woods - Kauri, Sassafras, Tasmanian Oak and Huon pine, ceramic and sterling silver fixings. Dimension: Installation view 2.8 - 5m h x 4m w x 2m Exhibition: 'Bildhauen', Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney Shedding Series continues my fascination with the process of peeling back the layers. There is a poetic resonance to these forms that belies the pain of loss and grief, the grieving body, the irrevocable sense of mortality which of course comes to all of us.
Formally these are an exploration of layers of laminated timber and the challenges of moulding this wafer fine material to my ideas. Pressed, folded, twisted and stretched, the timber is in tension and communion with the gravity and simplicity of the ceramic circles, a universal symbol of life and death, that accompany them.
STASIS - 8 PIECES Material: Huon Pine, Kauri Pine, Oregon, Oak, fabric, paint, sterling silver fixings Dimension: 2400 mm h x 1200 mm w x 500 mm d Exhibition: ‘Bildhauen’, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney
Material: Australian woods - Kauri, Sassafras, Tasmanian Oak and Huon pine, ceramic and sterling silver fixings. Dimension: Installation view 2.8 - 5m h x 4m w x 2m Exhibition: 'Bildhauen', Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney Shedding Series continues my fascination with the process of peeling back the layers. There is a poetic resonance to these forms that belies the pain of loss and grief, the grieving body, the irrevocable sense of mortality which of course comes to all of us.