Inspired by an old family chair, Homeland suggests the inhabitation of the thoughts and feelings that this object provoked. Miniaturisation allows ones imagination to embellish an experience that the body cannot. It is the aim of this small sculpture to make real the unreal terrain of memory and nostalgia.
various timbers, timber chair, house paint
79 x 60 x 50 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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