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This piece was created utilising forks, screws and recycled rio bar. The owl is featured in full flight after successfully hunting and capturing a mouse.
Three delicate miniature bags are in the shape of generic bags.
Copper has been manipulated and coated with vitreous enamel colours. Black cupric oxide, formed on the copper during kiln firing, enlivens their appearance.
The bags are constructed from thin copper to resemble paper. Arranged on a lightweight wooden shelf, they are permanently fixed for protection.
Do not squeeze the bags of thin copper and vitreous enamel ie form of glass, which is a durable surface and may be wiped.
In this work I have created a screen which stands open and away from the wall so the interaction of the wires with their shadows is more dramatic.
I could fry an egg on the bonnet of my car.
It’s raining cats and dogs.
If it’s blowing a gale, we may hear, “It’s a bit windy today”.
I would like to convey calm, and a feeling of unity with the earth where linear simplicity intersects with the curvature of nature.
‘Yin & Yang’ portrays a mother and child absorbed with one another, oblivious to the world around them. The mother encircles and protects her child, her body acting like a cocoon and echoing the theme of a “circle of life”. Inside the circle, the child’s arms create a yin & yang shape that suggests, while fitting together so neatly, there is a force that will inevitably separate the pair as the child grows into adulthood.
My intentions with this portrait is to display a work of abstract realism with the formation of shapes that are curious and considered.
In my practice as sculptor Im always looking to challenge myself, to move forward.
I do accept commissions, though sculpture will vary from the original.
I loved creating this vessel, the slightly twisted form and the extended leaves were extra tricky but fun to accomplish.
Instead of making a vase in the traditional sense, I hoped to create a different and more interesting vessel which in itself has the idea of leaves in the form and enhances the normality straight idea of a vase.
This form has a hint of a woman’s twisting body if seen from different sides .
‘Just the Tip’ – a snap-frozen moment making comment about Arctic/Antarctic zones and geographical changes affecting our physical world.
Chris works with small light-weight components, predominantly fashioned from factory-floor discards, continuing their life while at the same time, focussing on matters relevant to our future life.
The finely fabricated pieces reflect both the intimacy of producing small hand-made forms and the refinement of the machined-product reminiscent of the refrigeration plant in Orange NSW, from which many materials were originally sourced.
I have enjoyed hearing different interpretations and thoughts about this work.
It awakens so many memories, feelings in all of us.
Is in the experimentation, the search of my inner voice, that I find myself shaping metal in straight curves and angles that define me today. The twist and defined lines of certainty on one side and the uncertainty, uneven, hidden.
During this personal journey I discover how my limitations feed my pursuit of identity.
“I’ll be when I’m ready, not before, probably after, maybe never.”
Includes 80cm plinth The fact of being who or what a person or thing is.
What gap does art fill? What could “letting go” allow to create? Why own art? Do we want to own beauty?
Carnal raw beauty, no glamour, insinuating shapes, cheap materials, modest.
To own the simplicity is my path to be over this dilemma … my yearning to break free from possession.