Photo Credits: Jessica Maurer

Raw, fired, glazed and unglazed clay, panty-hose, power-stretch mesh, resin

Hold on me is an installation of clay in its various fired, unfired, glazed, and unglazed states.  The clay interacts and collaborates with stretch fabrics and wire hoops through pulling and reaching from points on the wall, ceiling, and floor, forming sinews and tentacles reminiscent of the body. The motif of the squeezed imprint of the artist's hand within clay proliferates throughout the installation, a clear sense of the exchange between material and the body. The clay forms are held and supported as much as they are bound and rendered precarious. This creates an experience of tension within the body that is palpable to interacting audiences, as they move towards and around the work.  The work is about the intuitive sense of touching as a way of feeling and moving site-responsively through space and interacting with encountered materials with a heightened haptic and tactile sensibility. Working intuitively with clay and fabrics, through processes of touching, holding, threading and squeezing, the tension held within the artist's body is evoked.

Shown at

The Annual, UNSW Art and Design, 2024.