Out of the fire – but now I am faced with finishing – I have been playing around with different size sewing machine drawers and this particular sculpture fits really snugly into one of the smaller drawers. However on the wall of the gallery – all the drawers being the same size – I think will look stronger.
I have spent the afternoon cleaning and waxing the vintage sewing machine drawers for my caryatids – I have 10 sculptures completed and I am hoping to place them all in the gallery along one wall on a perspex shelf at eye level.
Somewhere between Summer’s longing and Autumn’s kindness is one of the larger sculptures that I have ready – it may get edited out during bump-in. She is 50cm tall.
This caryatid has been finished for awhile but just not photographed – still several un-fired and I want to complete another 5 before my show.
This box was found with the tape attached saying ‘BANG’ and with pirates signs on back – obviously a well treasured child’s secret stash box – or perhaps even an old school case or ‘port’ as we say here in Queensland. My father was a postmaster on Bribie Island in the late 50’s/early 60’s and there were three girls. The silk transfer prints in the background of the box are stamps I made of me standing outside the old Bribie Post Office. This sculpture is currently on exhibition at Rosebed Street Gallery.
Yesterday I took some old pieces of work out to Rosebed Street Gallery – the piece below is from 2008. Vintage buttons, vintage silks from kimono , acrylic, gesso and wax. The base is newspaper sheets folded into thick bands and then woven together, trapping a moment in time, half truths, lies and nonsense.
Sometimes you think a piece is finished – but it is incredibly important to live with something for a little while before you finally make up your mind
Caryatid number seven – fired and stained. I am hoping to complete a bakers dozen to hang along the longest wall of the gallery. Each caryatid will be in a vintage sewing machine drawer.
veronica cay 