Roughing Out
Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre
31 August - 13 October 2013
‘Roughing Out' was a break with carefully controlled carving to delve into the creative process and the medium. The series of works explored the raw material of marble itself, the act of carving as performance and its refuse. Elements of the process normally confined to the studio were brought into the gallery space. Likewise the waste and marks of process, usually hidden in the finished forms, took centre stage.
All photos by Mark Pokorny.
The Alchemic Cycle 2013
HD video, infinitely looped
Stills from video
Dust Hinterglasmalerei 2013
Reverse drawing in marble dust on acrylic
12 pieces, 56 x 56 cm each
I Was Here 2013
Reverse drawing in marble dust on acrylic
56 x 56 cm (from Dust Hinterglasmalerei)
Half 2013
Statuario marble, 315 Duralex glasses and dust from the carving
Two pieces: 56 x 39 x 55 cm and 73 x 39 x 40cm
The Recursive Time Machine 2013
Performance by the artist reproducing his right hand with an 'Alexander' pantograph machine
Digital resin prints and marble inside a plexiglass box
200 x 200 x 200 cm
A Thousand Cuts 2013
Wood (studio tabletop of the artist 2001-2011)
60 x 100 cm.
Half Full 2013
Statuario marble and duralex glass
Edition of 12, 12.5 x 7.7 x 7.5 cm each
Recycled Bags 2013
Wombeyan marble, nylon bag, rubble
110 x 110 x 100 cm each
Glory Hole 2013
Wombeyan marble, core and dust from drilling, hardwood
110 x 120 x 50 cm
HD video, infinitely looped. (Single loop duration 8'54")
The Alchemic Cycle is a single channel infinitely looped video work. It shows the artist engaged in a Sisyphean act of breaking down a marble block, baking the powder in a kiln and slaking it in water to reform into a visually identical yet substantially changed block. It explores this perpetual process that has no beginning, middle or end.