August 3, 2024
In
Home 2024
Found nests, eggshells, dogwood branches, zinnia petals, plinths
Collected between 2021 and 2024
Sizes variable
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October 5, 2019
In
Braving the Anthropocene 2019
Braving the Anthropocene: Air, Earth, Ether, Fire & Water
Reclaimed sports helmets with found natural elements : pheasant feathers, branches, dragonfly, beech seed pods, burnt wood & ashes, flies, paperclay branches, discarded bird nest section, shuttle cock feathers
Sizes variable
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Thinking of tenacity, fragility, resilience and beauty. Thinking of the human attempt to act as guardians.
Thinking of the confluence of man-made with nature.
Thinking of how these helmets, each representing an element: Air, Fire, Earth, Ether and Water, represent the entanglement with our surrounding natural worlds, the battle within ourselves and for humanity.
October 1, 2019
In
The Voyagers 2019
Taxidermy pigeon, 280+ hand-built paper clay branches, discarded fishing net
260 x 108 x 58 cm I 102 x 42.5 x 23 in
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Creating hundreds of paper clay, oxide stained branches that were then woven into the discarded fishing net extends the visual story beyond one of the pigeon from being simply in flight. To what end have these branches been collected? While they are symbolic of nature as a whole, they also represent the cycle of birds who gather materials with which to create a home.
There is a tension between the branches that are being carried away and those left trailing in a precarious position on the gallery floor. I am interested in an interactive narrative which mirrors life, the audience holding the potential for contrasting roles as the observer, caretaker and destroyer.
While the bird may signify the animal kingdom, the hand-built branches, ranging in colour from a dark charcoal grey to almost white, may represent the struggles of the natural environment on both land and sea -forest fires and coral bleaching.