Still – like water
I walk to stop, to be still.
A fluid stillness that plants my feet. They consider growing roots, a momentary transplant.
Between clouds, trees, boulders and a creek in a valley, the fragility of moments becomes transparent and tangible.
This body of work explores the sculptural possibilities of a sheet of glass, heat and gravity. Each work an abstraction of place, time, light and lines. Pared back but infused with colour drawn from the decorative elements that clothe and place a landscape, it is an abstraction of hills and valleys walked.
Seemingly soft, fluid glass forms nest within, are held by or connected to a customised wall structure, abstracted from the ageless more static elements and spaces of place – rock, boulder, space between trees.
At the core of my practice lies the desire to seek an understanding of our often tenuous connections to place. Walking in places beyond urban environments, seeking solitude and distance, photography and writing have become tools to inform my making.

The Creek, 2019, folded glass, wall shelf with image, H 65 x W 42 x D 20cm

Still presence III, 2019, folded glass and wall structure, H 126 x W 20 x D 14.5cm

Still presence II, 2019, folded glass and wall structure, H 129.5 x W 30 x D 12cm

Presence within, 2019, folded glass and plinth, H 15 x W 100 x D 25cm

Still presence V, 2019, folded glass and wall structure, H 105 x W 24 x D 12cm

Presence remains, 2019, folded glass and wall structure, H 60 x W 40 x D 11cm

Still presence I, 2019, folded glass and wall structure, H 132 x W 25 x D 8cm

Still presence IV, 2019, folded glass and wall structure, H 117 x W 36 x D 8cm

Snow Gum I, 2019, folded glass and wall structure, H 72 x W 22 x D 13cm
Photography credits: Dorian Photographics