bronze
Little Ray of Sunshine celebrates joy, life and love. The mother and child delight in their physical game, reflecting the trust and love between them. I wanted to use balance to bring out a lightness and movement in the form, despite bronze being such a heavy, solid material. The sculpture also embodies my love of exploring the simplification of the human form to as few lines and shapes as possible, and the use of expressive surface texture.
I love the thrill a dog feels when she scampers around and dries herself after a bath – it’s infectious, as dogs’ moods are. I suppose that’s why we love them.
The ‘Shadow Dancer’ sculpture bridges the gap between the digital and the real world. Its anamorphic shape is created by inverting the sculpture’s digital data and meticulously fabricating it, using a combination of prototyping equipment and manual labour.
I have attempted to capture a deep sense of tranquility in this work depicting the upper body of a male peacefully resting with a relaxed arm poised over the edge.
Observing the movements of the body as it translates emotions, physical impairments, and pain thresholds of our bodily vessel. I primarily utilise materials easily malleable like soft metal rod, the pliable and viscosity of wax and the durability, strength, and the rich earthy tones of bronze. I translate the gestural line and form of the body in motion and express the rhythms that resonate within the form resilience to override adversity.
Sick of being told you need to act your age?
Feel you’re missing out on doing fun stuff just because it’s not age appropriate?
Who made up these stupid rules anyway?
Get out there and enjoy. You’re never too old!
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”.
Amaranth is/was an imaginary undying flower.
Perhaps now, cast in bronze, the tree from which the mould for this piece was fashioned, lives on, and the ephemeral existence of an artisan may be remembered.
Breaking the bodily vessel apart reveals its fragility and internal tension. While the body is captured in various states of temporal fragmentation, implicit references are made exposing its inner strength and resilience.
As a child, I often visited my grandparent’s property in Cootamundra. My grandfather taught me to trap rabbits, a skill he’d learned in the 1940s in Moree. Although hares are also an introduced species, he said he didn’t want me to catch them. He said I should just watch the hares from a distance. They’re solitary animals – observant, dignified and wise – just like my grandfather.
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