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posted on 2025-04-01, 03:23 authored by SIMONE SLEESIMONE SLEE
Since the 20th century, and with the New Materialist turn, materials used within sculptural practice have been understood to have agency. Rocks holding together #4 continues to extend an understanding of abfunctional material possibilities in an artwork through the synchronous engagement of cut bluestone with its raw face and glass. This artwork investigates the role of lateral forces on the glass bubble form shaped as a consequence of the two cut bluestone with their raw faces coming together. Here the glass reveals the chasm between the two lateral rocks, echoing stone chasms often found in rocky landscapes such as in the Grampians/Gariwerd.

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  • Original Creative Work : Visual artwork

Place

Melbourne, Australia

Venue

Sarah Scout Presents, The Spring 1883 Art Fair, The Windsor Hotel, Melbourne

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Sarah Scout Presents

Start Date

2023-08-09

End Date

2023-08-12

Medium

Bluestone and glass

Research Statement

Since the 20th century, and with the New Materialist turn, materials used within sculptural practice have been understood to have agency. This sculptural work questions how the notion of abfunction (a neologism that identifies the move away from function in the outcomes and production of art), can invert expected material agency of glass, rock and air within sculptural practice. Rocks holding together #4 continues to extend an understanding of abfunctional material possibilities in an artwork through the synchronous engagement of cut bluestone with its raw face and glass. This artwork investigates the role of lateral forces on the glass bubble form shaped as a consequence of the two cut bluestone with their raw faces coming together. Here the glass reveals the chasm between the two lateral rocks, echoing stone chasms often found in rocky landscapes such as in the Grampians/Gariwerd. This artwork, was exhibited as a part of the group exhibition of the well respected commercial gallery, Sarah Scout Presents installation at Spring 1883, in the Windsor Hotel, Melbourne, 2023. This series of artwork has been instrumental in the invitation to produce a solo exhibition at Heide Museum of Art, at the iconic McGlashan and Everist modernist house in 2026.

Size or Duration of Work

40 x60 x 40cm Exhibition duration: 09/08/2023-12/08/2023

Affiliation

Simone Slee, University of Melbourne

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