Painted Frameworks | Paper Cloaks | Sculpture & Marquettes

"The hand" Detail.

"The Hand" Montalto site image 1.

"The hand" Montalto site image 2.

"The Hand" 2015. Montalto Catalogue Photograph by Wil Salter

The Hand in construction

Constructing the timber framework for the hand, centerpiece of the installation. The timber framework was subsequently covered in fibreglass, collage and synthetic polymer paint.

Instilation Global Arts Link, 1998.

"head"

"Connah" small wall sculpture 2016

"Family" (detail) wall sculpture 100 x 30cm 1997

Maquette for "Already the Death Song" 1998.

"Chair of Bob" small wall sculpture, 2018

"Gippsland landscape" maquette, 2014.

Recent works - sculpture & maquettes.

Once I started trying to create paintings in the 1990’s about my family, I lost a natural visual image to paint from and needed to seek a new way of representing what I was trying to portray. I have always been interested in sculpture. (When I went to study in America in the early 1980’s, I initially planned to enrol in a sculpture course - before they persuaded me to stick with painting.) I started making small models and assemblages that became my method of developing work since that time.

In 1998, I was commissioned by Rodney James to create an installation to the inaugural exhibition for Global Arts Link in Queensland. This enabled me to experiment for the first time with a large scale version of one of my maquettes. In the following years I built a few larger models, but the opportunity to create larger works did not eventuate. After 16 years, it is a little ironic to me that the inspiration to build my next sculpture ( for the Monalto Sculpture Prize) was the same maquette.

MONTALTO SCULPTURE PRIZE – EXHIBITION NOTES

Recent Works - Sculpture & Marquettes

Recent works - sculpture & maquettes.