Burnt Stick is the feeling of peace and calmness that remains after the act of fuelling one's own destruction. Fire may have rendered its surface soft and porous, and yet the structure survives as a relic of its former self resting upon a mantle.
Courtesy of Olsen Gallery
concrete, cedar
17 x 38.5 x 11 cm
Finalist
Judges of the 2019 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize: Professor Ross Harley (Dean of the Faculty of Art & Design and UNSW Chair of Arts and Culture), Louise Herron AM (Chief Executive Officer, Sydney Opera House) and Tim Ross (Design and Architecture advocate, Broadcaster, Author and Comedian).
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