Large Works

Kangaroo

Medium Steel & polyethylen agricultural rope

POA

The Great Mother 2008

Steel sculpture painted

POA

Secret Lives

The Hidden Life is an assemblage of recycled, rusted steel and double braided polyester rope. The sculptures are veiled in the openwork polyester weaving. The archetypal forms reflect the tallest flowering plant on earth: the eucalyptus.

The knotting embodies the skeletal life held within the form and is reminiscent of the First National peoples traditional X-ray art practice. The ropes extensions echo the roots at the base of the trees reminiscent of the sacramental blood/sap flowing into the life giving earth.

Detail: The Hidden Life #1

The Hidden Life is an assemblage of recycled, rusted steel and double braided polyester rope. The sculptures consists of three totemic forms veiled in the openwork polyester weaving. The archetypal forms reflect the tallest flowering plant on earth: the eucalyptus.

Each totem is crowned with steel objects saluting the sun. The rope is woven in the old macrame technique. The knotting embodies the skeletal life held within the form and is reminiscent of the First National peoples traditional X-ray art practice. The ropes extensions echo the roots at the base of the trees reminiscent of the sacramental blood/sap flowing into the life giving earth.

Home

Medium Repurposed steel & electrical wire

H45 x W5 x D8cms

A Parallel Universe 2012

Assemblage sculpture with Vegetable steamers and steel

A Parellel Universe 2012

Assemblage sculpture with Vegetable steamers and steel

The Lotus Flower No 2 2013

Assemblage sculpture with Vegetable steamers and steel

Phenix Rising

I’ve collected nature’s flotsam, weathered timber, old, scarred bits of dead trees from the surrounding bush on which I live. Out of their unique shapes, I assemble pieces to evoke birds in flight. I give the weathered forms a copper patina and use recycled salt and pepper shakers as small plinths, to contrast the old with the new. I add rainbow strips to the plinths, referencing Noah’s journey from the corrupted world to the refreshed and redeemed world, heralded by the very first rainbow that came after the flood. My birds invoke the Dove or the Phoenix rising

Black & White

Mandorla

Mandorla is made from a tree limb stained to reflect the ravages of bushfire. Contrasting material of fabricated sting emerges from the portal of wood, echoing an ancient symbol of feminine renewal. The woven shape contains the secrets of the Vesica Piscis calling for the need to regeneration the land. 2022

Here comes the sun

Here comes the sun is made from bush litter stained to suggest burnt offerings. Fabricated string is added to organic matter reflecting light appearing from the darkness.