Nettie Sumner
Australian artist Nettie Sumner uses hand-knitted wire and ebonized iron to create wall hangings and objects that evoke botany, archaeology, flotsam and jetsam.
(Metal wire, Ebonized iron. Each piece varies. Approx. 28in x 8in x 8in.
David Oliveira
This Portuguese born artist use wire to make sculptures he considers drawing, or 3d drawings. His idea was created by his own research into finding a way to draw in the air. To him, wire is a line wih different diameters, materials and colours. He works with galvanized wire, to silver and iron. He would coat velvet or tulle onto or the around the wire, or paint is black.
He talks about looking at the empty space underneath the visible (skin) and how to show the energy, intention and movement) that is inside the bones of the body
His website: www.davidoliveira.org and on Instagram: davidoliveiraescultura
Jennifer Quan
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“In Wildness is the Preservation of the World” – Henry David Thoreau The body of work Monomoy reflects my experiences and observations of being…
As an interdisciplinary artist, I create installations that resonate with the materiality and rhythms of the natural world. My work is directly inspired by personal experiences had in nature and the research that evolves from wanting to understand the history and systems of the locations I explore and plants I gather. I am an observer, collector, fabricator, and instigator of thought and haptic experience. Throughout my creative process I employ techniques that crisscross the boundaries of contemporary craft, sculpture, and installation.
Ralph Borland
In SPACECRAFT a collaborative work the artist share a depiction of Star Wars spaceships in a vernacular African wire art style inserts Africans into the fictional universe of Star War. He suggests the ‘explanation’ for these wire art depictions is that wire artists are seeing and representing space ships in their environment, as trucks and cars are already depicted – so wire artists are imagined as present in and Africanising the fictional world of Star Wars. In this way, Borland, a South African artist/curator/interdisciplinary knowledgeworker, sees this current wire scene as a space where hybrid elements of Northern and Southern origin are woven together.
He suggests that his work SPACECRAFT (2018) might share that one mode for liberating the future is by infiltrating the hegemonic cultural products of the west through making modifications and insertions to them. For him this is not total liberation and substitution with completely alternative content, but it follows in the mode of Southern liberation in being tactical, adaptive and resourceful in ‘infecting’ the mainstream future – inserting itself into its ‘ideological circuits’.
Gjertrud Hals
Nnenna Okore : sustrainable sculptures – Australian born, 1975 – look at her repetitive processes – weaving, rolling twisting, dyeing and sewing