2018

Hard angles and geometric form suggests a megaphone. Does it want you to speak up, or has it a need to speak up?

About the Artist

Sydney based artist, Shane Forrest has been working with ‘the street’ since the early 1980s. Forrest’s artistic practise and reoccurring themes focuses on the ephemeral, the discarded, the unremarkable and the evidence of entropy in our daily lives.

Forrest creates 2D and 3D works informed by his local environment, both the inhabitants, as well as the physical environment. Within his enduring attraction to representing entropy and ektropy his attention lies with the reification of amassed forces of the discarded packages of consumed promises. Forrest states his practise results in a simultaneous defence and attack by producing work with mainly reclaimed materials, with a recent concentration on old cardboard boxes as a medium. His practices are historically connected to the Nouveaux Realists of the early 1960s and Raymond Hains’ particular “affichist” conceptual concern for engaging with the unspectacular.

Forrest is a graduate of the College of Fine Art, UNSW receiving his Masters of Art in 1995, has exhibited extensively with solo exhibitions in Australia and Japan since 1981 and is represented in many private and institutional collections.

• The artwork that you are purchasing is part of the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize exhibition (20 October to 11 November 2018) and is available for collection on Monday 12 November.
• Prices are in Australian Dollars and include GST.
• Price does not include shipping. You will need to arrange collection or shipping of the artwork at your own expense.
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• If you purchase the winning artwork (which is announced on Friday 19 October at 6pm) ahead of this date, you will be given a full refund at the time of the announcement, as the winning artwork is acquired by Woollahra Municipal Council.
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