This series was developed from drawings, ideas and photographs exploring characters that are hidden in the stories of landscape. There are strong beliefs in the "other" in Iceland, coming from cultural mythology and stories to protect children in a very harsh, dangerous climate.
These specific characters are part of the trickster code common in many Australian stories. They occupy our literature and storytelling. In legend, they are the characters of dreams and dreamers and are often associated with stealing children from their families and waylaying spirits of the newly dead so that they cannot find their resting place.
These two are manipulated porcelain figurines in a tableau of innocence and sharing, but their unseen, or 'hidden people' side is brought out in the messy, slacker masking forms to hide the intent of a trickster – a fake innocence that the trickster uses to lure us into their confidence for the trick to work and the story to be told.
fired porcelain, found object, mache clay
25 x 19 x 13 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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