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052: Ingrid Morely
Watcher | finalised 2025
$26,000
| Weight | 85 kg |
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| Dimensions | 180 cm × 50 cm × 47 cm |
| Filter Medium | Timber, Bronze |
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| Edition Type | Edition 1 of 2 |
| Catalogue number | 052 |
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I started this work years ago and have subsequently reworked it and reconsidered the base carefully.
This sculpture was originally part of a larger work, the remaining ‘body’ was lost in a studio fire – she has always felt unsettled or incomplete to me up until now as I believe she has been looking for the rest of her body.
The Watcher feels finally to have arrived as the simple abstract wooden forms suggest her missing self. I was influenced by the work of Brancusi when considering the wooden sections in relation to the bronze and how the illusion of the rest of the body is imparted by the sections that support the bronze or marble, usually in Brancusi’s case, wood, balancing the sculptural component without creating a distraction.
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Watcher | finalised 2025 Sculptor Bio
Ingrid Morely
A traditional atelier training at the Tom Bass Sculpture Studio in Sydney in the 90’s focusing on the life study has informed my work consistently throughout my 30 year practice.
Residencies
2006, awarded an Australia Council Residency in China, collaborating with fabrication yards and highly skilled artisans led to an exploratory and formative period artistically.
In 2003, a residency in Paris and the Loire Valley, France was instrumental in my use of found objects derived from historical properties and places leading to breaking the idea of a solid form into component parts.
Public Art | Commissions |Prizes |Awards | Residencies
2024 First Prize Award Acquisition Sculpture For Clyde – Public Art Collection. Batemans Bay, Nsw
2023 First Prize Award Acquisition Mid- Western Regional Council’s Public Art Collection.Mudgee, Nsw
2023 First Prize Indoor Award Sculpture In The Valley – Kangaroo Valley, Nsw
2017 First Prize Major Award Harbour Sculpture – Clarkes Point, Sydney
2016 Highly Commended Sculpture At Sawmillers - Sydney
2016 Award Residency Kelton Plains– Defiance Gallery, Sydney.
2015 Awarded Public Art Commission – Oberon Aged Care Facility – Oberon, Nsw
2015 First Prize Major Award Swell – Currumbin Beach, Queensland
2015 First Prize Major Award North Sydney Sculpture Prize,Coal Loader Centre For Sustainability, Sydney
2015 Award Acquisition The Mid- Western Regional Council’s Public Art Collection, Mudgee, NSW
2015 Award Residency Hill End – Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
2014 First Prize Acquisitive Public Sculpture Award, Forbes NSW
2013 Highly Commended Work In An Urban Environment , International Exhibition – “Lovelace”
Powerhouse Museum, Sydney NSW
2012 Highly Commended University Of Western Sydney Sculpture Prize, Campbelltown, NSW
2009 – 2011 First Prize (Residents) Willoughby Sculpture Prize – Burley Griffin Incinerator, Sydney.
2008 First Prize Lady Ethel Nock Prize For Sculpture, Defiance Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
2006 Award Residency Australia/China Council, Beijing China.
2006 Award Subsidy Australia/China Council.
1996 Awarded Public Commission Rookwood Cemetery Necropolis, Sydney, Australia.
Selected Finalist Recent Group Exhibitions
2024 Wollombi Sculpture Award Exhibition – Wollombi, Nsw. Australia
2024 A Sculptor’s Eye – Grace Cossington Smith Galley, Sydney. Australia
2024 Sculpture For Clyde – Batemans Bay, Nsw. Australia
2024 Alice Art Prize – Alice Springs, Nt. Australia
2023 Sculpture By The Sea – Bondi, Nsw. Australia
2023 Six Inch Exhibition - Defiance Gallery – Sydney, NSW. Australia
2023 Sculpture In The Garden – Mudgee, NSW. Australia
2023 Sculpture In The Valley – Kangaroo Valley, NSW
2022 Six Inch Exhibition – Defiance Gallery – Sydney, NSW. Australia
2022 Wollombi Sculpture Award Exhibition – Wollombi Valley, NSW. Australia
2022 Sawmillers Sculpture Award And Exhibition - Sawmillers Reserve, McMahons Point, Sydney. Australia
2021 Six Inch Exhibition – Defiance Gallery. Paddington, Sydney, Australia
2021 Naked And Nude – Manning Regional Art Gallery. NSW, Australia
2021 Western Sydney University Sculpture Award & Exhibition – University Of Western Sydney. Australia
2021 Guest Artist – Homeward Bound - Coal Loader Centre For Sustainability, Sydney Australia
2020 Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize – Adelaide Festival Centre. Adelaide, South Australia.2020 Alice Art Prize – Araluen Art Center – Alice Springs. Northern Territory, Australia
2020 Muswellbrook Art Prize – Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre, Muswellbrook Nsw
2019 North Sydney Art Prize – Coal Loader Centre For Sustainability, Sydney Australia
Solo Shows
2023 Defiance Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2023 Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, NSW.
2019 Defiance Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
2008 Defiance Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2006 “China Suitcase’ Pickled Art Centre, Beijing, China.
2003 “Past” La Petite Briche, Loire Valley, France.
1998 Artarmon Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
Collections | Acquisitions
2024 Sculpture For Clyde – Eurobodalla Shire Council’s Art Collection.Batemans Bay. Nsw
2023 Mid- Western Regional Council’s Public Art Collection. Mudgee. Nsw
2015 Mid- Western Regional Council’s Public Art Collection. Mudgee. Nsw
2014 Public Acquisition – Forbes, NSW
2006 The Lady Ethel Nock Collection, Hong Kong, China
2004 – 2008 Sculpture By The Sea – Private Collections
1998 Bathurst Regional Art Gallery Collection. Bathurst. NSW. Australia
1996 Rookwood Cemetery Necropolis – Stations Of The Cross (Outdoors)
1996 – 2025 Defiance Gallery – Private Collections
1985 Oppenheimer Collection, Oppenheimer Family Trust, Johannesburg, South Africa
