'Shell Egg' Photo: Michael Myers 2011
Contemporary works from Sydney College of the Arts
5th October - 10th November 2012
Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery
Cnr Coff and Duke Streets, Coffs Harbour NSW 2450
Tues - Sun 10am - 4pm
Selections
from the ‘Egg Room’
are 5 objects taken from a larger pool of 24 objects. The found objects
accumulated in my studio over a period of years, and the eggs grew. The eggs
grew from the insides of other eggs. Plaster is a blank, stationary material,
and is well suited to capture the shadowy insides of eggs. I’m not sure why,
eggs or objects—I simply found myself collecting and making. There is a bower
bird down the road who has a lovely collection of blue objects—feathers, bottle
tops, plastic ribbons, and I wonder two things: Why blue, and what blue (other
than feathers) did they collect before we put our blue plastic bits out there?
I suppose I wanted the insides of
the eggs to come alive, for the objects to hatch them, or for the eggs to hatch
objects. I wanted stories, weird but familiar object stories. I see them as
Frankenstein eggs more that Fitcher’s Bird eggs—if Dr Frankenstein were more
concerned with poetic rather than literal transubstantiation (and had a thing
for birds).
The eggs and objects are quite delicately
assembled. It has always been important for me that the process of assembling
be conceptually or poetically exposed; as such these things are held together
with mostly wax and string. They are tied, strung, wrapped and pinned, poised
and balanced. They are easily toppled. They are precarious, reflective, and a
little bit humorous.
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