I seek to work with existing narratives connected to a material’s past use, each selected to help reconcile threads that I’m working through.
This piece, made from thousands of beads hand-cut from a single tree guard and an unravelled silage net, is for contemplating the grief of incomprehensible land clearing while also cradling hope for a semblance of repair.
found tree guard, found silage net
38.5 x 33.5 x 13 cm variable
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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