Today I left the left side of the brain on the stool. I left it there because all my life I've had it talking at me, for me and about me. What was happening in the past what is going to happen in the future. Rabbit. Rabbit. Rabbit. Rabbit... To procrastinate over and over and over and over and over and over again. God I'm sick of it. I want. I want my mind. I want my mind to expand. I want my mind to expand to a new neverland.
Philip Jarvis was formerly trained at Camberwell School of Art, London, but these days enjoys spending time sitting on sand dunes in New Zealand watching albatrosses flying overhead. Philip was the joint winner of the Sidney Myer International and Portage Ceramics Awards. Numerous other awards and exhibitions, including residencies at Wild Creations, Rotorua Lakes, Millay Colony of the Arts USA and Vallauris, France and Sturt.
His works sit on the coffee table at the New Zealand Embassy in Los Angeles, in a display cabinet in the Frans Hals Museum, Holland and the vaults of Te Papa Museum, Wellington NZ.
used staples, stool
72 x 35 x 30 cm
Finalist
Judges of the 2016 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize: Wendy Whiteley OAM (Ambassador for the visual arts), Rhonda Davis (Senior Curator at Macquarie University Art Gallery) and Barry Keldoulis (CEO and Group Fairs Director of Art Fairs Australia).
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