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Crown of Barbs
Crown of Barbs
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Crown of Barbs Sculpture Sculpture

Fiona Hueston

Ireland

Sculpture, Metal on Iron

Size: 8.7 W x 8.7 H x 2 D in

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I recently dug up a piece of barbed wire on my land where there is thousands of years of agricultural history. This inspired me to create a piece that would honour that history and the people who'd been farming the land for many generations. So created the sculpture by bending and weaving the up cycled barbed wire into the form of a circle, essentially a crown. I was drawn to the difficulty and challenge of working with such an aggressive material. It is a strong wire made with two separate strands of wire twisted together with spiralled sharp elements added to them. This meant I had to work with heavy duty gloves and use brute strength to bend, weave and shape the wire into a crown. 'The Crown of Barbs' is an acknowledgment to the noble pursuit of farming and an understanding of the strength required and the dangers associated of such an important and significant vocation, for it is from these noble skilled individuals we get our sustenance. 'Crown of Barbs' Barbed wire 22cm Diameter 5cm high 365 grams weight

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Sculpture:Metal on Iron

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:8.7 W x 8.7 H x 2 D in

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Fiona Hueston is an visual artist whose work incorporates many different disciplines, including photography, installations & sculpture. During her studies for a Masters Degree in Cross Disciplinary Art & Design at the College of Fine Arts UNSW. Fiona started to investigating the possibilities of working with multiple origami paper forms, which lead to the creation of sculptures and installations. The Equal Hearts Project installation, featured in her first solo exhibition and won the Awesome Foundation grant, consisted of two thousand paper origami hearts. The installation was a participatory artistic petition where the general public were encouraged to write a message on a heart supporting marriage equality, each heart was then strung up and attached to a hot pink rotary washing line, an iconic symbol representing domestic married life in Australia. Fiona starting exploring other origami forms, stacking and gluing them together to create sculptures. Her piece Circle, which consisted of four hundred fortune tellers was a finalist in the 2015 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize and led to her winning her first artistic residency. Fiona continues to develop her artistic practice in Paris, France, working mostly in sculpture and photography and has recently exhibited at The Other Art Fair in New York & is will be exhibiting at the ArtRooms Fair in Rome 2-4 March 2018.

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