Stardust to Stardust

 A branch fell off a street tree near my place narrowly missing my neighbours' car... when it came to having it cut up and taken away they gave me two pieces. It took a long time to find the inspiration that suited the wood... but now the work is being entered in the Herring Island Summer Arts Festival Sculpture exhibition - "Connection"

"We are all stardust formed in the creation nova - so a life flows between the stars in twists and turns and pools and rapids from stardust to stardust."

the start was seeing the bridge

 

and cutting out some of the less sound wood

then the wood started to tell its own story

and there comes a time to see what the oil brings out in the grain

and the grain is captivating -
details recording the incidents of the tree's growth

more grain... more interplay between
the inner and outer surface of the branch

The work is in the Association of Sculptors of Victoria exhibition on Herring Island as well as the online exhibition and will be on show until 5 February 2023.

out of iso... and Against the Odds - on exhibition

 What a long lonely year that was! And then the frantic preparation for a Covid19 safe exhibition! I had a part to play - the real work was done by experts but there's a lot of running around... and thanks to https://www.instagram.com/robandersonphotographer/ for the images of my work - that made a huge difference to the presentation!

Contemplating the Finite

And of course lots of other people helped - the online exhibition 

Contemplating the Finite

https://sculptorsvictoria.asn.au/virtual-exhibition/2021-herring-island-summer-arts-festival will be active until February 28 2021

Herring Island 2019

Herring Island in the middle of the Yarra River is a great place - it appears to be natural bush but the Friends of Herring Island will tell you the long and arduous battle they have had to get things to grow. But it's coming up a treat as pioneer natives give way to something closer to a community. The Association of Sculptors of Victoria runs a show as part of the Herring Island Summer Arts Festival - in 2019 from 12 January to 3 February.
So I put two works in:
"Sun and Moon" and a new one "Meander"

Sun and Moon (image Rob Anderson Photography)

"Meander" is a continuation of the bronze and glass story - and the subject - maybe a lament for the Darling River - was intended to find an echo of sunlight through water and the re-wilding of rivers.

two waxes for the two media under construction

In Mal Wood's Foundry

glass fish out of the kiln

In the exhibition

Where it won the People's Choice Vote