Installations

Real Estate Scramble

Golden silhouettes of stereotypical Sydneyites clamouring and scrambling up the slippery slopes in a race to obtain the pinnacle of possessions, money, power and real estate, real estate, real estate.

The Copper Herbaria

An installation of 9 copper leaves reflecting on the beauty and diversity of Australian native flora. Nature has an amazing ability to adapt to an ever changing environment including an increasingly dry climate, fires, floods, mining, the necessity of farming for sustenance, the constant creep of suburbia and mankind’s destructive habits. What happens in the future if nature can not adapt fast enough?

Dreaming Of Tree Changes

Escape from the city sounds exciting, but where?

The bush?

A dairy farm with a possibility to extend into cheese and a cafe?

A mixed farm with maybe a winery on the side?

Or, carry on as usual with a business in the closest country town?

Decisions? Perhaps it is easier to just keep dreaming.

BUSINESS SHOULD PUT NATURE ON A PEDESTAL

Beatle Mania

Colourful installation of Beatles made from recycled materials trying to enter a building by the Studio Sculptors: Adrian Farrow, Joan Hurlstone, Eva Kellermann, Vivienne Lowe, Vera Robinson, Kathy Rosenmeyer, Jan Shaw and Roz Stampfli.

Flow

“FROM
one space
one state
one thought
one breath
TO ANOTHER”

Constellation

Constellation is a colourful wall relief installation made from foam collected from the verge prior to a council clean up. The children’s educational foam mats have been repurposed as an installation influenced by the concept of patterns in the night sky formed by groups of stars. Constellations were historically used by humanity to navigate by land or water from one location to another. The relief also encourages the navigation from one exterior space to another.

Ghost Seeds

The fragile survival of mankind depends on nature to continue to produce seedpods from which seeds of multiple fascinating shapes and sizes cast their chance upon the vagaries of the wind to nestle, grow and replicate. The continuous cycle on which all humanity relies depends on humanities ability, as the dominate species, to not destroy the environment.

Ghost Seeds is an installation reflecting the possible outcome of monoculture, lack of seed diversity, pollution and the extremes of climate change. The artist envisions the natural, colourful environment, unable to reproduce, replaced with mounds of dead seeds and leaf litter due to the adverse intervention of mankind.

Ghost Seeds By Jan Shaw: White ceramic seeds on a black table.

Seedpods

The Seedpods reflect on the importance of seedpods for all humanity. Seedpods pregnant with life carry a precious cargo spread by wind, water and wing awaiting their moment to burst forth in germination. The future of all we know depends on a chance search for a tiny birthing spot to nestle, grow and replicate in a continuous cycle on which all humanity relies. Seedpods carry the seeds of destiny.

Then There Were None

The glory of the seas in one big catch but has greed overtaken need.

By Studio Sculptors: Adrian Farrow, Joan Hurlstone, Eva Kellerman, Vivienne Lowe, Vera Robinson, Kathy Rosenmeyer, Jan Shaw and Roz Stampfli.

Nature is a Cellular Structure

An Installation of six stainless steel structures suspended from trees to draw attention to and invite reflection on the visual world. All of nature is derived from and composed of a mass of single cell structures giving form to what we actually see.

Bird Stack

Bird Stacks seeks to bring attention to the plight of birds and their need for resting and nesting areas. Colourful flocks of birds constantly migrate on prearranged flight paths around the world.

They find rest, food and refuge before undertaking long return journeys. Mankind needs to be mindful of these important migratory flight paths and stop developments that interfere with their resting, nesting and feeding grounds.

Urban Twitter

Birds integrate into the urban space bringing beautiful colour and sound to brighten our environment. Birds also have the ability to traverse large distances in an organised flock which reflects an ability to communicate and navigate in a very sophisticated fashion. The installation has an interactive sound component of bird calls relating to our mobile phone rings.

Society uses various modern techniques such as Facebook and Twitter to interact, organise and communicate. It seems the world is now all “a-Twitter”. An Installation by the Studio Sculptors: Adrian Farrow, Joan Hurlstone, Eva Kellermann, Vivienne Lowe, Vera Robinson, Kathy Rosenmeyer, Jan Shaw, Roz Stampfli.