Nature’s cyclical persistence
A solo exhibition of my work is dawning soon at Casespace, Bruton Museum. An intimate space enclosed in a glass case and one corner of the Museum, the exhibition ‘Precious and Primal’ will show some of my smaller pieces – including cocoons and new work I’m making at present: New Beginnings is a series of egg forms with tentacles sprouting upwards. I’m experimenting with the kinds of media I used years ago – bandage, wax, bristles etc… to achieve the textures I’m after.
My ideas have been developing for a proposed show, for which I’d like to create a massive piece as the main focus. Concepts of ’a network of threads weaving through all things’ and Nature’s cyclical persistence keep re-emerging. Although one changes, develops and adapts in life – it’s strange how one keeps returning to old ideas. It’s that ‘cyclical nature of things’ concept again (or I’m like a goldfish swimming around.. and around….)
Sonja Klinger (glass artist) kindly gave me some beautiful large pink glass baubles, which she considered scrap. As I collect recycled materials she thought I could use them in my work. In a way, I’d like to keep them just as they are – objects d’art in themselves. They have been sitting decoratively in my garden over the winter, mulling over their next destiny. But I have a plan for them now. My Diatom drawings show the baubles encased as the heart within these sculptures. Diatoms are phytoplankton from the Jurassic Era. Significantly endangered, they’re responsible for over 40% of the ocean’s primary production – without which we all die. When I recently learnt that information, my obsession with these fascinating microscopic phenomenon grew all the stronger. We mustn’t kill them just as we mustn’t slaughter whales!
My work with the Scraptors sculpture group is accelerating once more. We are about to launch our IndieGoGo bid to help fund our next venture at the Magdalen Project and filming continues tomorrow to get our message across. See our blog for details: scraptors.blogspot.com S-J of Whitespace Productions has kindly made a shorter film version of our Scraptors’ Sculpture Trail at Stourhead to help with our IndieGoGo fund-raising launch.
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