Medium Steel & polyethylen agricultural rope
POA
Steel sculpture painted
POA
The Hidden Life is an assemblage of recycled, rusted steel and double braided polyester rope. The sculptures are veiled in the openwork polyester weaving. The archetypal forms reflect the tallest flowering plant on earth: the eucalyptus.
The knotting embodies the skeletal life held within the form and is reminiscent of the First National peoples traditional X-ray art practice. The ropes extensions echo the roots at the base of the trees reminiscent of the sacramental blood/sap flowing into the life giving earth.
The Hidden Life is an assemblage of recycled, rusted steel and double braided polyester rope. The sculptures consists of three totemic forms veiled in the openwork polyester weaving. The archetypal forms reflect the tallest flowering plant on earth: the eucalyptus.
Each totem is crowned with steel objects saluting the sun. The rope is woven in the old macrame technique. The knotting embodies the skeletal life held within the form and is reminiscent of the First National peoples traditional X-ray art practice. The ropes extensions echo the roots at the base of the trees reminiscent of the sacramental blood/sap flowing into the life giving earth.
Medium Repurposed steel & electrical wire
H45 x W5 x D8cms
Assemblage sculpture with Vegetable steamers and steel
Assemblage sculpture with Vegetable steamers and steel
Assemblage sculpture with Vegetable steamers and steel
Mandorla is made from a tree limb stained to reflect the ravages of bushfire. Contrasting material of fabricated sting emerges from the portal of wood, echoing an ancient symbol of feminine renewal. The woven shape contains the secrets of the Vesica Piscis calling for the need to regeneration the land. 2022
Here comes the sun is made from bush litter stained to suggest burnt offerings. Fabricated string is added to organic matter reflecting light appearing from the darkness.
Refer to Morphic Resonance #1 statement on description
Refer to Morphic Resonance #1 statement on description
Refer to Morphic Resonance #1 statement on description
Resin, feathers & copper
H12 x W15 x D8cms
Price $310
The resin sheep series looking at indigenous and non indigenous perspectives on country. Sheep have long been held as a symbol of European settlement. The importance of the “Golden Fleece’ on colonial economic development was profound but in direct conflict with experience that these strange animals had on The First Nation People. Looking at the impact of the imperial invasion of this country Yorta Yorta composer, Deborah Cheetham, states ‘We were sacrificed for the sheep’ If a Koori person took a sheep they were immediately hunted down. The great fields of mernong and other Koori agriculture was sacrificed for the sheep's grazing land.
The work aspires to reconnect with this iconic form of the sheep as we dream of an inclusive planet expressed through mythical symbols.
Resin & feathers
H11 x W12 x D5cms
$260
Resin & feathers
H10 x W12 x D5cms
Price $260
Resin, wood, steel & feathers
H15 x W22 x D11cms
$450
Resin, feathers, beads, copper & fabric
H11cms x W14cms x D5cms
$230
Resin & feathers
H15 x W16 x D11cms
$480
Medium: Resin, feathers and copper Size: H20 x W 15 x D5 cms
Price : $400
Cooked explores our conflicted attitudes to our colonial past and the position Captain Cook holds in Australian history. We continue to celebration annually of the 1770 landing on Gweagal Country (Botany Bay). Here Cook’s bust with a headdress reminiscent of Indigenous adornment, with all it’s connotations of ritual and spirituality. Around his neck hangs an ornamental breastplate which has both positive and negative associations. It is a symbol of dispossession and mistreatment on the one hand and pride, strength and resistance on the other. Cooked seeks a truth-telling and a questioning of the monuments to Cook in light of the Black lives matter movement worldwide.
