The clay nests installed as imagined… At the Yarra Sculpture Gallery end of year exhibition…Bonanza…
Category: installation
Please Touch
During the installation of this work I had been determined to place the clay nests on the wall, as I had originally imagined them. But it just didn’t work.(I really did keep trying to make it work!!) I finally allowed myself to listen to both the work, and my friends, whose advice I had asked for and placed all of the nests on the floor. In the action of doing this, Paul Blackman and I discussed how lovely it was to hold them. The clay nests have a warmth about them. From this we decided to invite the audience…
Nest
A review and images from my installation at Rubicon ARI, Queensbury St, Melbourne August 2016 “Very cool to drop in on Stefanie Robinsons installation at Rubicon ARI today……we walk into a white space, walls , floor and ceiling . Hanging from the roof detritus ropes, sun worn ,ocean swept , sometimes unravelled and frayed . At intermittent points the ropes flair out into beautifully woven nests before being drawn back to follow gravity and continue to the floor where some coil , frayed ends tickle the floor, a minute nest, the essence of intimacy and well being , nestles…
nest… upcoming installation
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…
Scenes on the Yarra
I sent a lovely day yesterday in Williamstown as apart of the final Scenes on the Yarra guided performance/installation celebrating the Yarra River, created by Jeminah Reidy. I installed a collection of nests in trees along Nelson Parade and highlighted them with a sound scape created by Dean Lombard. The soundscape include a song that he had written in response to one of the nests I had made from rope found washed up on the newport breakwater. The long tails of the nests reached down to the footpath. As I sat and waited for the performance to pass through I…
The Dirty Dozen Christmas Window
There are better photos coming…and more words but for now a quick glimpse of my finale piece for 2015….installed in Campbell Arcade (or the Degraves underpass as I call it) I was one of 12 selected by the City of Melbourne to create this installation for “Urban Forest” showing until the end of January
The Village….. part 2
So quickly it happens…. The Village has gone up, and been taken done and now rests in a box in the studio. Except the shipping rope which is still sitting in the back of the car waiting for that extra person to be available to help us lift it out! Thanks to all of those who made it to have a look. I received a lot of positive feedback and have the vision for the next one…. Here are some photos from the opening….
