Fragment

This piece, "Fragment" was what I made to exhibit at "Festivale" (Launceston's annual food, wine and culture festival). As an award winner at last year's Artentwine, I was invited to put a piece into this exhibition for the weekend.
After a false start and a massive fail, here is what I came up with - I experimented a bit with materials, using cement and plasticiser-soaked hessian over a wire form to construct this. I am quite pleased with this as a sculpting medium - not sure about the longevity of this as a medium to make outdoor pieces from, but it did survive some very wet weather over the "Festivale" weekend with no adverse effect. Now I have it at home and I will just leave it outside in the garden and see what happens........I actually think a bit of weathering will add to the feeling I was trying to achieve.

This double face is about a metre in length.

Done and dusted!

I finally got the ferro-cement sculpture I was working on finished and installed - it is at Goaty Hill Vineyard for the month of October (ArtEntwine) and can be viewed there along with the other eight.....they are dotted throughout the wineries grounds - all different and diverse. I also have some small works on display at the cellar door of Tamar Ridge Winery. Having got that monster out of the way, I can move on to other things....

Pollocked!

Fun throwing paint around, Pollock-wise, like this...........first head completed - second one well on the way.

From one extreme..........

The last piece I completed was very small (featured in my last blog post).......now I am working on something at the other extreme. This is HUGE! Ciment fondu. Or ferro-cement if you like. It sure keeps you on your toes working at both ends of the size gamut. The hardest part of working on something like this is getting the structure of the underlying mesh layers (which are all "stitched" together with wire) right. It is time-consuming and painful, but worth it for the joyous fun of slapping on the cement mixture!