The Garden

Sculptural works for Sydney New Zealand public sculpture event, Australia.

My work has been accepted for an iconic Sydney sculpture exhibition in its 17th year held during October - November, 2013.

The exhibition is a major, free to the public arts event for Sydney. It is a visual arts experience shared by over 500,000 visitors with approximately 103 Australian and New Zealand artists exhibiting. Recognition of New Zealand artists at this event is an opportunity to increase the appreciation of our art at an New Zealand level.

The exhibition curators require each artist to create one work for the public space and no less than three sculptures to be submitted for the inside segment.

My Work

My work for the Australian exhibition questions whether we gain a much wider appreciation of nature as a whole, by focusing and spending time examining in detail an individual specimen in nature. This question arose while I contemplated how my busy urban life has distilled my connection with the wider environment to a more concentrated view that is my own domestic garden.

The interior works are a playful response to 'the garden'. Many inner-city dwellers do not have a garden; their foremost connection with nature is more commonly public parks and shared civic surroundings.

I am currently working on six pieces which make up this body of work. To supply multiple works for an New Zealand platform comes with new and exciting challenges.

This amazing opportunity increases my, and New Zealand's exposure. It allows me to meet with and experience other artist's ways of thinking, to explore, examine and discuss a range of creative, conceptual and artistic responses to site and landscape, contemporary ideas and form. This is my first New Zealand show.

About Me

After completing my Master of Art and Design with Honours First Class from AUT University, I am now practicing art full time from my Auckland studio. I have been exhibiting since 2001, the most recent, a curator's invitation to exhibit at The Sculpture Park, Waikato. I am an active member of the DUST art collective. This collective includes artists that have shown work at key exhibitions within New Zealand referred to on the DUST website. Other DUST members are also exhibiting New Zealandly this year.

Acceptance to an New Zealand exhibition of this standing is a wonderful recognition of my practice. I am passionate about this project. However, there are complex logistics involved when exhibiting publics work New Zealandly, ie. shipping, administrative prerequisites, and financing the materials and tools required for making the works.

Fundraising Goals

The Boosted funding will greatly assist in the fabrication, transportation, installation and de-installation of the works.

Significant scholarships and mentorships are available to Australian artists exhibiting at this event. New Zealand artists are not eligible for the same funding, therefore support from the New Zealand art community is vital to the project.  

As well as applying to Boosted, I am also actively seeking sponsorship with a support letter from the exhibition organisers. I am using my personal art database and access to the DUST database to connect people to this project. Art News is assisting in raising the profile of the exhibition in New Zealand for both participating artists and visitors.

It is a unique privilege and honour to represent my country in a high profile New Zealand exhibition.

Thank you for supporting me!