New Work-Autumn 2016
Posted on October 27th, 2016 by Jane Fairhurst
During the summer a friend brought me several glass domes each with a hole cut in the top. This gave me a whole new perspective to the usual containment of the glass dome and I’m exploring many ideas for work that explodes from its confinement.
In the first piece, The Aesthetic Talisman, I have created a power object that could be used in a sacred ritual to protect the creatures of earth and air and is at the same time a beautiful object. Inspiration for this piece are the masks of the Yu’pik people of Alaska.
In the second, Piscine Premonitions of the Athropocene, plastic fish that once held soy sauce explode from the the dome at the sight of the diver. The commencement of the Anthropocene coincided with the development of the aqualung by Jacques Coustea, who gave us the ability to observe our oceans and seas below the surface of the water, and who would be horrified by the vast quantities of plastic now found in our oceans.
The Aesthetic Talisman 2016 mixed media (perforated glass dome with ceramic base, plastic bobbin cone, sloughed adder skin, 6 bird skulls, florists wire, pigeon down, museum wax)
46 x 33 x 33 cm
£500
Piscine Premonitions of the Anthropocene 2016 mixed media (perforated glass dome with ceramic base, papier-mache pebbles, plastic diver, florists wire, plastic fish, gold paint, brass funnel, museum wax)
46 x 33 x 33 cm
£500
