Selected for Still : National Still Life Award 2023 and now part of the Yarrila Arts and Museum collection, Coffs Harbour

My work, 'Effigies of Domesticity' has been slected for the 2023 Still : National Still Life Award exhibited at the newly renovated Yarrila Arts and Museum, Coffs Harbour, NSW. The work is a grouping of four sculptural works with concrete embedded with ceramic shards, shells and found materials, displayed on timber plinths. The work is now proudly part of the YAM art gallery collection.

ARTIST STATEMENT:

"Deconstructed and reassembled, ceramic shards representing the domestic are embedded in elemental concrete forms. Personifications of the juggle of work and motherhood, the primordial in conjunction with the refined porcelain, referencing ideals of the feminine, are captured in an awkward dance.

Placed on plinths adorned with artificial flowers and fruit they become fragmented remnants of an ideal. The feminine body is metamorphosed as vessel, with its functional role of pouring and holding is held still."