This work was commissioned in 2021 for a home in Annandale, Sydney.
This post is an almost repeat post written shortly after the sculpture was made, to which the commissioner has reminded me.
I was invited to make a screen that borrowed visual language from The Interior, (1990).
It’s a challenge to go back in time to what we were before, but having been invited to go back, I was pleased to be at home again with the feelings I had when I made that sculpture thirty years earlier.
The Interior was made as a response to how I perceived the Australian landscape is formed by being burnt, eroded, blown away or cracked open. From living here, we are familiar with these processes of landscape formation.
The main difference between an Australian landscape and a European one is that one is broken down and the other is built up. Broad brushstrokes can be applied to making sculpture!
The Interior 1990 Wamboin
Annemarie’s Gate 2021 Under construction at Wamboin