Sculpture and Body Adornment Pieces

​2020

Bangles, cuffs, wrist wear

Brooches/pins and finger rings

Standing on her own, but she does fall over. I have to adjust the base, or decide to use the little tunnels to thread an invisible thread through and attach it to the ceiling.

 WIP
Untitled paper and glue
No wire or other supports 
March 2020

2019 

​Silver bangles and cuffs
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Paper glue acrylic paint
Diameters from 60 to 75 mm

Silver with gold ridge pendant
​Paper glue acrylic paint
​95 x 50 x 10 mm
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Silver with gold koru pendant
​Paper glue acrylic paint
​85 x 85 x 7 mm

Silver and copper cuff.
Paper glue acrylic paint
SOLD

Silver ridge pendant
​Paper glue acrylic paint
​65 x 55 x 20 mm
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Five domino pendant
​Paper glue acrylic paint
​65 x 50 x 5 mm

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Brooches

Gold 2 (right) 55 x 45 x 5 mm

Gold 1 55 x 35 x 5 mm

Silver 50 x 50 x 10 mm

Thing One red/gold 150 x 125 x 5 mm + Thing Two red/silver 130 x 135 x 5 mm Thing 3

Agoraphobia and Inversion: Meditation On A Dystopian Future.
Scroll down to see them from the beginning of their making. 

Inversion: Meditation On A Dystopian Future right

Paper, adhesive, acrylic paint, chicken wire, acrylic sheet.

Acrylic pad 300 x 300 mm; H 270 mm W 280 mm D 300 mm

The state of the world, a future beyond that which I can hope to see, riches beyond belief causing misery beyond belief; shorthand for the meditative process that created this work. 

Agoraphobia left

Paper, adhesive, acrylic paint, acrylic sheet
H 282 mm W 380 mm D 355 mm
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The state of the world, our longing for acceptance-belonging-being at home/whanaungatanga; conflict, isolation, separation - just a few words that spring from feelings that created this work, layer on layer.

Here are two open spaces punctuated by built features paradoxically united and kept apart by transparent but impervious walls. There is no stair way connecting the two levels; no perforations, no gaps. Imagine the spaces scaled up, populated by human beings.

Reach Out
L 55cm, H 23 cm, W 22 cm.

The feet are hollow spaces, the open space between them the necessarily confined and connected space in which all things must be approached and negotiated. The only possible retreat is back to one of the sources. The ridge along the space disappearing into the hollows  is the path of consensus. The ridges on the exterior of the feet may be seen as representing complexity and diversity; the interesting, the valuable.

Peace Wall
So many walls, so little peace.
L 44 cm, H 33 cm, D 13 cm

Embrace
L 40 cm, D 15 cm, H 30cm
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Like a love seat. The lovers face each other, close but able to walk away. There is the elusive comfort and freedom we long for, of which there seem to be so few examples on any scale.

Infinity Piece - the many faces
28 x 28 x H 16 cm

#8 

The making of...
Gesso glow, mid October
Second coat for Peace Wall, Reach Out, Embrace, Infinity Piece, ​and first for the under piece of Inversion

#1 Embrace

#1 Embrace drying

#2 Infinity Figure WIP

Fattened up with more layers

#3 Reach Out WIP

Above L & R 01 September 16.00
Right 02 September 13.30 
Below, 3 images,  02 September 16.00

​Paper is an amazing material: easy to find and recycle, easy to work with, malleable when wet; strong, and each layer is surprisingly thick.
See the bands
around the feet and a horizontal
​rib along the open section. Right.

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#4 Peace Wall
First paper layers are on

#5 Inversion: Meditation On A Dystopian Future
Front, side and top views

I want to open up space between the two forms, around their meeting point

#6 Agoraphobia
This work is composed of paper and glue only, without other reinforcement.

Agoraphobia lower piece

Agoraphobia upper piece

Upper piece

Lower piece