MIBMO is an acronym from ‘moving in before moving out’. When moving out of my studio in late 2019 I wondered, had I ever really moved in? This state of change became a way of making space and a sculptural catalyst for new work. The work has a material fragility that reveals my experience as an artist and need to take risks, challenge limits and rationalist principals and to tune into a different rhythm and set of values with new potential.
Given the state of flux in the world in 2020, this feels expanded to understanding the fragility of the world in which we exist, with an urgency to wonder about a life worth living and to value imagination, joy, creative pursuits and adventure, equally alongside our love of the world. (The experience resonated with Irit Rogoff’s proposition of a need for unlearning something old to enable learning something new).
bisque porcelain, paint
25 x 10 x 10 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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