Monthly Archives: August 2016

Today is the 1st of August… I have 17 days until …

Nest

Stories in rope and clay

“Today I bring inside the heavy brown rope and start to pull it apart

    It is thick with dirt, dust and oil. It holds a story of work.

    It is rugged and strong, like an old farmer who has spent his life in the fields…”

 

These nests have been woven from rope and formed in clay.

 

Fragile containers for hope: 

an invocation for 

shelter, security and safety

for all. 

 

This work is my response to her experiences as a community artist, bearing witness to stories of trauma that flow from or lead to the loss of a home, a safe space, a community.

 

 “If only rebuilding a home, a community, a future was as simple as twisting some found rope and reclaimed copper…”

 

Hope is a fragile thing, so easily lost sight of in the barrage of media and world events. But it is “the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.” (Emily Dickinson)

 

 

Opening     Wednesday 17th August 6 – 9pm    

Runs          17th August – 3rd September    

Hours         Wed – Sat 12 – 5pm     

 

at

Rubicon ARI

Level 1/ 309

Queensberry Street

North Melbourne

VIC 3051 Australia

Please come and join me at the opening on Wednesday 17th August 6 – 9 pm

This work was developed in a Creative Spaces managed studio.

Creative Spaces is a program of Arts Melbourne at the City of Melbourne