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Cuttings

Cuttings is an exploration in divergent approaches to sculpture and sound by five artists and musicians.  The project builds on multiple constellations of collaboration over the past thirteen years starting in 1998 with Aphids project Ricefields, on which three of the artists first worked together.

-> Exhibition Title: Current, 2011
     Exhibition venue: Linden New Art, Melbourne
     Curator: Rosemary Joy.
     Artists: Rosemary Joy, Natasha Anderson, Sarah Pirrie,             Dale Gorfinkel and Vanessa Tomlinson.
Materials include: Fan, paper, recycled wire and hooks, found weights from St Kilda, Rare Earth Magnets concealed in sculpting putty and paper

About Current: Exploration in divergent approaches to sculpture and sound by five artists and musicians.

Consciously divining my immortality as waste and by-product, I test my practice and its materiality. Current is an installation and event using hand-made paper forms and wind. Generated by a commercial fan wind acts as the main protagonist of the artwork while the paper endures to discover new associations and sculptural entanglements.

The aleatoric composing in Current uses hand-made papers reminiscent of an ocean world full of leafy and weedy strata. The ten days within Linden Gallery set a defined rhythm of action and inaction. The paper's fragile forms adjoin our world in a theatrical performance of survival.

Destruction is inevitable but creativity live in what we do after the event.


Materials include: Fan, paper, recycled wire and hooks, found weights from St Kilda, Rare Earth Magnets concealed in sculpting putty and paper