Considered Specimens

‍I am a Melbourne based artist working primarily in sculpture and casting. My work engages in concepts relating to archaeology and time, prompting the viewer to reflect on existential notions through a collapse of the everyday and the cosmic. I have worked on projects alongside artists including RONE and Callum Preston, exploring various methods of displaying decay. Through a range of material outcomes such as clay/plaster relief, traditional assemblage and found objects encrusted in a fossilised outer layer, Considered Specimens explores the materials of our contemporary built environment from a museological perspective. By bringing together the deep past and distant future this enables us to 'zoom out' of our perspective of the present and consider the inevitable decay of societal structures. The application from the public domain to the gallery implies a radically different world in which it is being viewed, asking the audience to re-imagine the context which it is presented in. Investigating notions of time, materiality and the everyday, Considered Specimens presents a new context for art-viewing, encouraging the audience to reflect on their everyday urban surroundings as characterised by a collapse of the past, present and future.

untitled, 2021  

plaster, clay, found Kennards water-weight parking barrier

1500 mx 800 x 350 mm

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untitled, 2021  

plaster, clay, found traffic cone, found PVC pipe  

545 x 250 x 250 mm

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untitled, 2021  

plaster, clay, merbau, steel  

803 x 603 x 45 mm

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untitled, 2021  

plaster, clay, found shovel  

930 x 177 x 43 mm

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Collection of Considered Specimens, 2021  

plaster, clay, steel, found parking barrier, traffic cone, shovel, PVC pipe, steel ladder, bathroom towel, merbau, bamboo

dimensions variable