Calendar - Installation view for Canberra Art Biennial
Pate de Verre glass, cast glass and bronze
2.4m x 4.5m x 10cm
2024
Photograph - Brenton McGeachie
Calendar is a series of 38 tablets taking the stone fruit as a starting point to examine organic cycles of reproduction, growth and decay. The imagery in Calendar draws on fruit stones, and box liners used to hold soft fruit. Forms are replicated in glass and bronze through various casting processes; reusing moulds, creating direct impressions and utilising lost wax methods. These processes mimic the production of the fruit tray and the reproduction of the peach; a mould is used to make repeated forms, just as a fruit is made multiple by the tree, or a stone holds the potential for a future orchard.
My interest in modes of reproduction was heightened by my own pregnancy, and this work became a record of those 38 weeks, finding relationships between my body, the changing of the seasons and the fallow periods followed by abundance of stone fruit in my garden. The forms shift between empty and full, marking the changes in my body and the bodies of the trees that surround my home.
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