Sculpture
Pest 1
As part of the pest series, this is the first: a rabbit. First introduced for its fur and food for the new settlers in 1830, it quickly became a pest that we live with today.
The mask has a history of entertainment and festivity, but also of secrecy and deception. The issues that surround pest control are varied and complex and one that is ongoing, and with governmental directives for a predator free by 2050 along with the budget slashing sets up a recipe for failure.
Ginkgo Biloba
Ginkgo Biloba – regarded as a living fossil – this leaf measuring 265 x 200mm is sandcast in aluminium.
Elemental Pressure
Exploring the pressure of society, in a transition or a state of flux and conflict is at the core of this work of the female form and fragmented body.
Complex Fragment I
The Complex Fragment bronzes are an interpretation of how women are challenged in modern society. Fragmented and disfigured they are they are reminiscent of the Greek sculptures I observed at the MET. They are fragmented objects, signifying the loss of self with the dissection of the face.
Complex Fragment III
Primarily about female identity in the 21st Century and the role of that is played by the social structure of our society, these partial portraits capture moments of identity, encapsulated and stopped in a changing and creative process made up of personal experiences, influenced by social pressure.
Relief
The removal or alleviation of stress and anxiety
Simple Introspection II
The fragmented disintegration of the female form
Introspection
Introspection – from the Latin Introspicere, to look within. The examination and observation of one’s own conscious thoughts and feelings. The observing of the operations of ones own mind with the view of discovering the laws which govern the mind.
