The Diviner continues recent work, which studies humanity's relationship with the natural world, particularly in relation to issues around climate, weather and natural resources.
Divining is an attempt to locate water using the unscientific method of holding a Y-shaped rod above the ground to 'feel' an energy. Divining was popular in Europe from the 16th Century and has also been used to locate witches, metals, weapons.
The figure is influenced by historical anatomy drawings created during the 'Age of Reason'. There is an awkwardness of figure in a heroic stance holding a stick. The piece explores our need for a technological fix concurrent with the inexplicable.
My process of casting molten metal into a fabric waste-mould adds to the strangeness of the objects – the figure feels soft and fluid but is solid metal, with detail of the process still imbued in the form.
Courtesy of Tolarno Galleries
Britannia metal, thread, DPM camouflage, wood
60 x 30 x 3 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).
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