Distant Ripple Sculpture

Drawing on a lifelong captivation with movement and pattern, I seek to create work that while mechanical in nature and function can be capable of liquid grace, jolting awkwardness, sublime beauty or fluid motion, where the work is as often about how it moves as what it is that moves. I find myself particularly fascinated with delicate equilibriums and what happens when you upset them, how far can they be pushed and still be capable of returning to a centre. Just as most human and animal locomotion are based upon a constant cycle of stability and instability, my work often seeks to utilize this process - a slight force upsets the centre of balance, the structures glide gracefully (or lurch ungainly) before once more regaining their equilibrium. The key to so much of our psyche, our physical and strangely mechanical beings, movement of all the celestial bodies and the ecosystems on our Earth depend on balance and equilibrium, or lack thereof. Distant ripple was inspired by recent discoveries/confirmation (since disproved – ahem, oops) of gravity waves emanating from the briefest moments after the Big Bang. And this got me thinking of these colossal forces acting from unimaginable distance and time, so attenuated in their travels that they are barely detectable (as it happens, undetectable, so far anyway). Sort of like a reverse butterfly effect, started off enormous, now so slight that we struggle to perceive it, yet these remnant forces underpin everything, are everywhere, passing through us leaving a flutter that would make a butterfly seem like an elephant tramping through us. So, Distant Ripple is a meditation on forces acting from afar, perceptions altered, space and environment changed… Distant Ripple was first installed at Horsham Regional Art Gallery for the Regional Forces Exhibition in May, 2014 In September, 2014, it was installed at the Spring Sculpture Prize, Lot 19 Gallery in Castlemaine, where it won the Tonks Sculpture Prize. Photo by James McArdle & Lorena Carrington

Sculpture:Steel on Stainless Steel

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:35.4 W x 70.9 H x 35.4 D in

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