The Theatre of the Shadow

This work infers an ambiguity between shadow and reflection. The shadow is a projection of the person’s double, or, according to Jungian theory ‘the dark side of the self’.

Catalogue Number: 024

Rings around the Moon

King’s celestial pieces celebrate our being in a beautiful and ever-expanding universe, evoking her fascination with balance and movement.

Catalogue Number: 026

Sirens

Inspired to capture the beauty of female form in repose and set against the lustrous natural lines of Australian Mangrove Wood.

Catalogue Number: 083

The Other Selves

‘The Other Selves’ depicts the shadow as an immaterial alter ego of the casting figure, the two axes illustrating both the good and the dark side of the self.

Catalogue Number: 097

Dance around the Moon

On seeing images of space taken from satellites, Inge King was inspired to make a series of works that explored the relationship between our planet and the rest of the universe.

Catalogue Number: 008

The Next Generation

The Next Generation depicts the continuous life cycle from a Mother to Offspring.

Peter Tilley Inside the Mirror
Winner

Inside the Mirror

RUPIO Prize for Metallurgical Excellence
My recent works are concerned with the symbolic effects of the cast shadow. The imagery draws on the Greek legend of Narcissus and Jung’s theory of the shadow as the ‘dark side of the self’.

Cast iron, polished stainless steel, corten steel

RUPIO Prize for Metallurgical Excellence – $1,000 won by Peter Tilley with Inside the Mirror

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