This sculpture is based on a well-known major road junction in the suburb of Broadmeadow, Newcastle. I drive through this intersection almost every day. It is a messy conglomeration of roads - all heading off in nine different directions.
The commercial businesses on this intersection are: A pizza parlour (with Pinball machines and Shooting Gallery arcade games), a tattooist, a spray paint shop, a pub, a servo and a used car sales yard. In my work, I have tried to capture the grit, pace and grunge of this streetscape.
On another level, the sculpture is also about driving and daydreaming. The shooting gallery superimposed over the head of the driving figure is my visual metaphor for targeting one's ideas and thoughts.
Courtesy of The Hughes Gallery
timber, reinforced pizza boxes, enamel
42 x 50 x 18 cm
Finalist
Judges of the 2013 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize: Nick Mitzevich (Director of the Art Gallery of SA) and Professor Ian Howard (College of Fine Arts, UNSW).
Download PDF (613 KB)