This work explores the interplay between technology and craft, looking throughout history at human-made narrative objects and imagining what we would have made throughout history if we'd had digital tools instead of paint or clay, textiles or timber.
Emerging from a collaborative process between man and machine, the 3D printed object is absent of the usual evidence of the makers hand if not the heart, translating enduring human ideals into digital expressions. The tension between technological sterility and pseudo-spiritual symbolism casts the work as an object from a different timeline, telling familiar stories in a new dialogue.
Forgive the Pride, the Wandering Eye, is an expression of reproductive and maternal angst. Drawing from a lineage of feminine forms and odes to pregnancy and menstruation that stretches back thousands of years, the work casts the woman as cavernous space and domestic object, expressing an ongoing reckoning with my internal architecture and the roles society wishes to place me in because of it.
I imagine this internal space as full and barren, precious and abject, a duality that neither I nor society seems able to reconcile.
3D printed resin, paint, gold leaf, shells, beads
30 x 20 x 8 cm
Finalist
Judges of the 20th Anniversary Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize: Dr Lara Strongman (Director Curatorial and Digital, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia), Joanna Capon OAM (Art Historian, Curator and Industrial Archaeologist) and Jenny Kee AO (Artist and Fashion Designer).
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