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1. Scarbo and the e-donut with apologies to Edvuard Munch although this did not start out with his famous image in mind. This work started out as a scraggy old cleaning rag that took on an interesting shape so I dipped it in glue and things just flowed from there. I attended a great piano recital in which Ravel's three part tone poem Gaspard le Nuit introduced me to the spirit Scarbo. The rest was just a case of creating something enigmatic for the viewer to contemplate
Comment on 'ABS - The Early Days' It has been said that 'Art is far too serious to be taken seriously'. That notion was one of the drivers behind than art of the Surrealist and the Absurdist movements. 'ABS - The Early Days' conforms to some ideas within those movements and draws inspiration from the work of sculptor Marino Marini. This work was deliberately distorted to emphasis the ludicrous nature of the predicament in which the two players find themselves.
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2. ABS - The Early Days Sketch of a work that comes from the absurdist tradition of art This work will stand about 2.0 m tall and is being produced for the major sculpture show, Swell Sculpture Festival 2011 in September Here the steel armature has been covered with blocks of styrofoam ready for shaping...
...which was carved and then modeled with cellulose cement ... evolving to this...ready for fibreglassing
then clothed in an old T shirt and slacks and viola |
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3. Masked Passion This is a narrative that explores the way we so often mask our true feelings. The fact that the male element of the sculpture has a full face mask and the female element only a partial mask is significant as most who are prone to analyse artwork would undoubtedly realise. Blocking out the Chillagoe marble piece then....
Getting there...Masks and Venitian costumes are synomous in my mind and so there are echoes of those grand costumes in this work
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...roughing out the faces, before moving on...
The work installed at the Byron Bay Writers 2011 festival sculpture show
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...then fibreglassed
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4. Gaspard de la Nuit
Composer Maurice Ravel based his three movement piano work, Gaspard de la Nuit, on a poem about the Persian mythical Guardian of the Night, written by Aloysius Bertrand. Similarly this sculpture consists of three elements following the narrtive of Ravel's tone poem.
This work will be finished in a metallic paint. The inner surfaces will be patinated to produce a rusted finish. The outer surfaces will be left in a textured metallic black (indicating the night). Over time that will oxidise mildly softening the harshness of the matt black of the metallic paint.
Two days before finishing this work for installtion in a gallery, it fell from the workbench and I now had several severall smaller sculptures. Considerable extra effort went into recreating the piece but needless to say the galllery deadline was missed. The final work is actually better for the unplanned diversion.
The final work mounted on a sandstone base
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5 & 6. Sculpture in the Paddock Project - Eight sculptors have been selected to work with local farmers - My collaborators in this project are dairy farmers, Lyn and Trevor Garrett from Coorabel. - Blue Cow Family Tree |
