Photo: Jacob Lewis

Grit                                                                                                                                                                      

Bronze dust, aluminium oxide paper, nails                                                                                    300 x 200mm approx                                                                                                                 2009

Bronze powder was collected from the workshop where a previous sculpture was constructed. The powder was then poured over two sheets of aluminium oxide paper which were used to prepare the gallery space. Hung vertically against the gallery wall, the dust clings to the paper in all but its most worn down areas and forms a pool on the gallery floor where it has lost its grip. What began as waste from the fabrication of an artwork has been salvaged and re-used. The sporadic interlocking of the powder particles with the grit of the paper reveals where pressure was applied to prepare the space in which the work hangs. 

 

Photo: Jacob Lewis