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034: Fe Heffernan
Touch Words | 2025
$3,000
| Weight | 10 kg |
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| Dimensions | 4 cm × 300 cm × 5 cm |
| Filter Medium | Ceramic |
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| Edition Type | Unique |
| Catalogue number | 034 |
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Touch Words is a sculptural piece that intertwines the tactile and visual worlds, offering a unique sensory experience for individuals with dementia and those who are blind or visually impaired. Created with braille and vibrant colours on clay, the sculpture forms a poem that speaks to the feeling of being at home in nature with an experience of peace, belonging, and connection to nature.
The artwork invites participants to touch and engage with the braille inscription. Touch Words is a platform that brings art to the public in open spaces, encouraging connection and reflection. By making this piece accessible to people with dementia and the blind, it aims to foster an environment where art is for everyone, where the emotional resonance of the poem can be experienced through touch, memory, and the intimate connection between body and nature.
This piece is a celebration of diversity, offering an opportunity for all individuals to connect with art in a way that speaks to their own experiences of the healing embrace of nature.
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To : Sculpture on the Farm
Touch Words | 2025 Sculptor Bio
Fe Heffernan
New Zealand-born Sculptor, Fe Heffernan, works on Gadigal land with material-based sculpture that include tactile forms for the purpose of inclusion of the blind and people with dementia as well as the world at large.
Heffernan draws on her unique background as a National Conservation Coordinator and twenty years of environmental and community-based work. In particular, her experiences working at the intersections of health, nature and art have developed from her work in Dementia Arts.
Qualifications
Her qualifications include -Honours in Sculpture from the Uni SQ and a Degree in Sculpture from the National Art School, Cert IV in Visual Arts. She holds qualifications in Health and Arts, Resource Management, Work Health and Safety and Project Management.
Exhibitions
She is in Sculpture by the Sea 2025.
Her works have been selected for major sculpture shows including SWELL in Queensland, Sculpture in the Gardens in Wollongong and many other shows including the Dobell.
Her professional experience includes her sculptural piece in a collaboration with the European Academy 2019 Gold Lion Venice Biennale winner about climate change. She has had works in major sculpture shows including SWELL in Queensland, Sculpture in the Gardens in Wollongong and many other shows including the Dobell.
