This month also was a busy month as we got ready for three exhibitions. The
Moreland sculpture show was one, BSG small works was two and my shared
exhibition at Meeniyan Art gallery was 3.This piece is in none and was an order from a customer
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One of my ex students got married and I decided to make her a seat as a
wedding present. This is Chanettes seat. I was going to do a seat with her
leaning along the back but this one is a new design and I thought she might
like it.
I had a commission from the shire to do a sculpture for Thorpdale
which is a small town in the Strzeleckis. I designed a 2 m circle filled
with historic junk, some wavy lines that represent the hills and potato
planting rows and a pole/tree which is 6 metres tall. Mark Olsen is working for Boord trading and he was doing the structural welding. He chose this pole
for the tree piece and here he is with Marian checking out the size.
This is the main part being put together. It is to go along the road as you
enter Thorpdale from the valley so it should look impressive.
This
was the piece for Moreland Sculpture show.I t is called
Seed
and the topic for the show was grow. It has a green growth coming out of the middle with two little characters bursting forth. Here it is on site with Madge , my mother in law looking on.
This is one of the pieces for the Meeniyan exhibition The theme is "on the
wild side" so I have explored a range of interpretations of this themeBalance 2
Behaviour of this type is also "Wild and as an ex teacher I was always amazed at what kids would try and actually get away with( not breaking any legs… or chairs!). For Balance 1,I made a tight rope walker . This one is another pose and I have tried to express the awkwardness that is part of the act for feats of balance that are well beyond my abilities. ( I am happy to be able to touch my toes… Thank you pilates). It all comes down to confidence in the end and a certain lack of inhibition. Although I am fairly inhibited myself I can appreciate it in others.
"A good idea at the time"
Wild is usually associated with crazy ideas and this one is one of those. I love my flying creations and this idea must have occurred to everyone somewhere in their lives. Some people put it into practice like the "danny deckchair" characters but this one looks graceful and sort of feasible. I’m not sure that you would want to fly for any length of time with arms outstretched but it was " a good idea at the time"!
Mask"
When I heard I was part of this exhibition with a mask maker I decided I had to do my own mask and it had to be suitably wild. I had just been to the exhibition at Heide where there was a show called "Cannibal tours" and they had a mask from New Guinea as part of a show about Albert Tucker and someone else’s reaction to his art. I loved the eyes in that mask/head but the rest is just my combination of interesting junk. I love the teeth piece which also suggest nostrils at the same time. I think it is off a piece of farm machinery but it works well here. I think Pauline’s masks are not quite as wild as this one!
This one was also in the red exhibition.This follows from my" up" exhibition and my "red" exhibition and it combines two ideas, the flying carpet and the red carpet.( A flying carpet is pretty wild to me!)
.Carpets were not commonly used on the floor in European interiors until the 18th century. The term "carpet" derives from Armenian "karpet" "kar" meaning a "knot" or "stitch’ The hand-knotted pile carpet probably originated near Turkey between the 3rd and 2nd millennium BC.
Magic carpets have appeared in literature from biblical times( Solomon’s carpet) through the present day. The popularity of the Thousand and one nights brought magic carpets to the attention of Western audiences.
The earliest known reference to walking a red carpet in literature is in the play Agamemnon
written in 458 BC. When the title character returns from Troy, he is greeted by his vengeful wife Clytemnestra who offers him a red path to walk upon:Probably you had never even thought about where these terms had come from. Hence my piece follows in a very long line of representations although I tend to think others have perhaps done it more neatly but mine has a lovely movement when you make it vibrate!
(research from mainly Wikipedia)