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English oak timber apple with mild steel stalk. Carved with chainsaw, rasp and orbital sander. Steel was forged into shape using blacksmith techniques.
The world is solid, but sometimes it doesn’t feel that way. This piece uses the language of public signage to hint at the potential private thoughts of a passerby.
Based on the iMessage ellipsis bubble. Many know the anxiety of waiting for a message. Maybe as this piece moves in the breeze, the experience can turn into something more playful and contemplative.
Waiting … weighs 4.5kg so could readily hang in a tree or indeed on a wall.
Inspired by the story of art loving sisters, my favourite people & places. Homage to our passion & love of the coast served on a salvaged timber wharf step that escaped the East Coast Low storm.
I asked Denise Lithgow to felt a piece of firewood that I had chosen. In response to her embellishment I completed the walking bird with twig, paint and some binding where necessary.
Considering the cultural significance of the oar is to recognise the preservation of life. Guardians, like presence of seven transoceanic timber forms honours the memory of life hanging in the balance.
Catalogue Number: 037
This piece was inspired by my late father in law Max. Braford bulls are strong and quiet in nature which encapsulates Max. He is mounted on a worn stair tread which represents his footsteps in life.
Catalogue Number: 104
Inspired by the tradition in art of rendering of a “kiss” from Klimt, Besos embodies a depiction of longing and reconciliation. Man afloat alone on the sea of time is anchored in togetherness.
Catalogue Number: 107
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: 098
This bronze/glass/wood sculpture is inspired by the surface texture of a coral called ‘Agaricia’. The base is made of swamp Kauri, a New Zealand native tree.
Catalogue Number: 073
Discarded materials identified as rubbish, diversity of colours reflects plastics in land fill, stippling references spores from decomposing waste, release of gases, contributing to Global Warming!
Catalogue Number: 077