Sally Simpson - Objects for an Unknown Future Museum
For Objects for an Unknown Future Museum the artist uses collected organic and inorganic ocean debris she has gathered over many years found washed up on south coast New South Wales beaches, the beaches of Kangaroo Island in South Australia, and other objects found on her property on the outskirts of Canberra. The over-arching theme of my work is the consideration of human relations with the land, the values we assign to it and the way it changes over time. In this exhibition I use materials collected from marine debris which I then stitch and detail to create ritual artefacts for a 'future museum'. Ritual and time are combined to transform and empower our detritus. Sally Simpson, 2016 @stanleysgallery @stanley_street_gallery
Venue: Stanley Street Gallery
Address: 1/52-54 Stanley Street Gallery, Darlinghurst. Sydney.
Date: 7th September - 1st October
Time: Wednesday - Friday 11- 6pm. Saturday 11am -5pm. Closed on Public holidays.
Ticket: free
Web: www.stanleystreetgallery.com.au
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EMail: mail@stanleystreetgallery.com.au
Call: 02 9368 1142
Address: 1/52-54 Stanley Street Gallery, Darlinghurst. Sydney.
Date: 7th September - 1st October
Time: Wednesday - Friday 11- 6pm. Saturday 11am -5pm. Closed on Public holidays.
Ticket: free
Web: www.stanleystreetgallery.com.au
: www.facebook.com/StanleyStreetGallery
: https://www.instagram.com/stanley_street_gallery/
: https://www.pinterest.com/stanleysgallery/
: https://twitter.com/stanleysgallery
EMail: mail@stanleystreetgallery.com.au
Call: 02 9368 1142
For Objects for an Unknown Future Museum the artist uses collected organic and inorganic ocean debris she has gathered over many years found washed up on south coast New South Wales beaches, the beaches of Kangaroo Island in South Australia, and other objects found on her property on the outskirts of Canberra.
Pieces of coral, shells and dried out fish bones, sometimes bird bones, are embedded in resin and contained in figures wrapped in whipping twine and found pieces of washed up rope. Mounted on a base of stainless steel these not so small sculptures (most are 75+cm high) reference African power figures, voodoo forms and Christian reliquaries.
The ritual associations are furthered in Simpson's labour-intensive processes of collecting, sorting, cleaning, preserving, transforming, moulding, stitching, weaving and wrapping to create these oddly beautiful and exquisitely detailed figures - spending many hours to create just one of these sculptures. Implicit in the materials and form of Simpson's current work are questions regarding human relationships with the ocean.
Pieces of coral, shells and dried out fish bones, sometimes bird bones, are embedded in resin and contained in figures wrapped in whipping twine and found pieces of washed up rope. Mounted on a base of stainless steel these not so small sculptures (most are 75+cm high) reference African power figures, voodoo forms and Christian reliquaries.
The ritual associations are furthered in Simpson's labour-intensive processes of collecting, sorting, cleaning, preserving, transforming, moulding, stitching, weaving and wrapping to create these oddly beautiful and exquisitely detailed figures - spending many hours to create just one of these sculptures. Implicit in the materials and form of Simpson's current work are questions regarding human relationships with the ocean.