My time at Bundanon explored the relationship between wearable form, transformation and the natural material already present within the landscape.
Moving away from predetermined digital forms, I worked with fallen branches, bark, seed pods and fragments gathered on daily walks, allowing their existing structures to guide the making.
Walking the Shoalhaven River landscape each morning, I gathered what the land offered: twigs, bark, seed pods, the architecture of dried branches. Forms that had already done their living and now waited to become something else.
From this encounter emerged Little Beasts, a series of small wearable works shaped by the landscape and by an encounter with the work and life of Arthur Boyd. A tribute to his seeing. Traces of the formal language of his paintings translated into small wearable poems: little beasts.
The bench was solid. The light was good.
The forms slowly mapped their shape.
The artist does not finish the work. The landscape finishes it. The viewer finishes it. Time finishes it.
This project was supported by the Australian Government’s Regional Arts Fund, through Regional Arts Australia and administered by Flying Arts Alliance, with additional support from Artisan.
Thank you to Dorothy Dwyer, her family and the Bundanon Trust for making this time and space possible.