The work Paint Pile 2008 is an investigation into the materiality of household paint and the extension of its traditional limits. It has evolved from questioning habitual notions that govern the application of paint onto two dimensional surfaces, into conceptual reality of coloured liquid solidified and moulded into an amorphous form.
Courtesy of Sarah Cottier Gallery
household acrylic paint, plastic bucket, chipboard
56 x 45 x 40 cm
Finalist
Judges of the 2008 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize: Edmund Capon AM OBE (Director of Art Gallery of NSW) and Deborah Edwards (Senior Curator of Australian Art at Art Gallery of NSW).
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