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Canberra Times Review of Landscape in Sculpture LANDSCAPE in SCULPTURE Sugarloaf Tree – 2020 – copper on corten steel base – 170 x 90 x 90 cm
STICKBAG TREE Copper on corten base 200 x 80 x 104cm	PHOENIX TREE Copper & corten steel 168 x 115 x 60cm	CURVEDGE Grape vine, copper, marble 40 x 12 x 7cm
WOVEN SOLACE Copper 34 x 34 x 34cm	TRUNCATED Copper 48 x 30 x 30cm	SPRING BLIP Copper 41 x 20 x 20cm
FOOL ON THE HILL Copper, brass 35 x 20 x 20cm	EPI-CACOPHONOUS Copper 34 x 34 x 34cm	FROM THE ASHES Copper & corten steel 95 x 65 x 75cm
NASCENT WEIGHT Grapevine, copper, iron weight 51 x 17 x 17cm	WHEEDLE VINE Grapevine, copper 19 x 60 x 18cm	KNOBBY CIRCLET Grapevine, copper 66 x 52 x 16cm
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.” ― William Blake

Reach at the ninth Western Sydney University Sculpture Award and Exhibition 7 May – 6 June 2021.

REACH at WSU 2021

REACH is a sculpture made from copper and corten steel representing vegetation emerging from rocky outcrops as often seen in arid areas of Australia. The resilience of the trees growing from barren rocks is one of the miracles of nature. The work is not a realistic depiction, rather an interpretation of the stark contrast between the hard dry rocks and the fleshy green vegetation sprouting from them.