Investigations into my own family history and migration inspired me to create hand cast multiple anthropomorphic wax objects that can be altered or adorned in a story telling manner, reflective of culture, memory and imagination. Family and friends have been invited to participate in this process of the aesthetic inheritance as a visual symbolic form.
wax, yarn, found objects
80 x 50 x 80 cm
Finalist
Judges of the 2009 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize: Geoffrey Cassidy (Director of Artbank), Neil Balnaves (Founder of The Balnaves Foundation) and Diane Balnaves (Trustee of The Balnaves Foundation).
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