"Bear headed" is sort of like the wild dog head and uses similar elements
such as the horse shoes for ears and the bearing for a nose and the rabbit
trap for the mouthWe saw the zoo in JuiJiang and it really is like a 1950 Australian zoo Concrete pens Iron bars and seemingly unhappy animals.
"China surprise" is a reflection on the hotel where on the upper levels
everything was perfect but in the lower part at night you could buy almost
anything you wanted and anyone you wanted. Hence the snake coming out at the
base
"Economy "is based on a chinese coin,token, that combines the elements of
circle and square. I call it economy for the fact that lots of bits of junk
and chaos work to produce one unified form which is big and impressive.
"Identity "is about how we construct an identity which perhaps is a different
version to our true selves, made up out of bits and pieces and sometimes
able to be seen through
"The shipping news "came from a song one of my ex students sang in a concert
about a man rowing through the rain. There was also a scene like this in the
book and movie the shipping news
"Skipping girl "was part of a series of small figures I am doing relating to
childhood pursuits and exploring the power of wire as a structural idea
"Bridge" is a bridge between illusion and reality hence the mirror.
Leonies Installation which gave the exhibition a real direction and presence
One of Eileen's paintings Rope Trees . This one is of the bound trees we saw all over
China
Lake Poyang by Eileen Harrison and Bamboo Gardens