steel
Starting that long slow climb back into the light, out of the so commonly experienced black pit of despair.
Catalogue Number: 051
A sheep called Shrek that missed a few shears, so had a large fleece. What if you pulled objects out of the fleece, like a magician’s hat; the strangest things some one could pull out? a DONUT.
Catalogue Number: 055
Five is representative of family; its connections and inter-dependencies and its fragile suspension in time.
Catalogue Number: 058
Sculpture on the Farm Acquisitive Prize – $10,000 won by Braddon Snape – Nothin’ But Sky
This work beckons one to immerse oneself, to focus one’s view of the expansive Australian sky in a moment of isolation. As one projects one’s head through the portal one sees nothin’ but sky.
I am interested in beacons, locating devices and where we as humans roam on the planet. This sculpture is an exploration of those thoughts.
Inspired by primitive WW1 caltrops, angular confused human forms expressing the tension and contradictions of war.
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’.
Stainless Steel and Painted steel.
People have told me my work has a morbid look but I actually think the skeleton is a marvel of engineering and the perfect example of function and form.
The dark, hard, angular geometry of the pieces, when combined together, created moody and dangerous forms that speak of dead organic matter, slashed and strewn about by some great heartless machine.Metal
Approx 400hrs made from reobar and 4mm flat bar. Lots and lots of welding and grinding and also my first attempt at a steel sculpture and last to I’d reckon. I do find solitude in grinding.