Yarra Sculpture Gallery Exhibition Award
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WHEN PUSH COMES TO SHOVE is an invitation to propel this object into motion. I ask you to feel my materials and to watch them turn over, in, and around, as I have.
This work is about personal symbolism, transformation and identity. Embodying thresholds between various entities (the conscious and unconscious mind; here and there; past and future; you and me), it bears mysterious psychic qualities and transmutational properties.
I am an emerging multi-disciplinary artist and curator working and living on unceded Wurundjeri Woi wurrung land. Originally from the painting discipline, my exchange at the Glasgow School of Art precipitated an intensely transformative move to sculpture back home. A drive to quickly integrate sculptural techniques and power tools into my practice catalysed my interest in shaping hard materials like wood and metal. I enjoy learning and utilising step-by-step fabrication methods like steam-bending and lamination to create forms. My current artistic interests occupy some space between abstracted form and utilitarian design. In my past work, I have addressed circles, ovals and ellipses many times. Each iteration has evolved through form, material, function or dimension. In The Non-Objective World, Kazimir Malevich (1927) wrote that “In the year 1913, trying desperately to free art from the dead weight of the real world, I took refuge in the form of the square”. Similarly, I find sanctuary in the circle.
