Ear to the Ground

Unfortunately this exhibition has been reboxed in Australia since May 2020 and if you have any interest in exhibiting these artworks please contact me for more details for size and visual content. 

Wednesday 6 to Sunday 24 May 2020

Viewing by appointment due to covid 19

Sandbox Studio

9/102 Henkel Street Brunswick Victoria

The central work in this exhibition, “Ear to the ground’ was created as an installation work enveloping fine translucent spiral shells (internal shells of Spirula spirula – Ram’s Horn Squid) in translucent papers made of fine (muka) and coarse fibres from harakeke (phormuim tenax). These shells from a deep sea tropical squid, I found washed ashore in Southland, stranded, far from their native waters. I have only ever found them once before in far north Queensland many years ago.

Notions of being stranded recur in my life and in my work. The connectivity of strands as fibres in paper and in string and weaving contrast with the notion of being stranded, alone and disconnected. As I developed the pieces to be exhibited, more strandings became apparent. Particularly in a quiet estuary where I found washed ashore pieces of synthetic rope and nets from fragments up to a half tonne remnant of a ghost net.