"Lost and Found", April 2021,
Ambush Gallery, Sydney.
Assemblages with found materials
Pieces assembled from found items exhibited in a group show of found or recycled material.
I’ve often embodied ideas in characters - in animation pieces and other still image works, but these pieces are unique to my practice, created when I lived on an island in the estuary of the Shoalhaven River, an island that also meets the sea at Seven Mile Beach. Post a major flood, sticks, shells, and sponges appeared on the beach, lost to their original purpose. The shells' makers had discarded their beautiful homes, the sponges had been ripped from their moorings, the sticks; broken, fallen and rolled by river and sea to become polished. Their forms fascinated me and I let each element make a suggestion, speak to me – sticks became the legs of a river dancer and sponges; skirts, heads or whatever. Shells, starfish and other molluscs found their part in scenes. A stick became the body of an artist in the process of imagining. I hope the viewer catches the delight I felt in the natural elements that the sea offered up.
