Anna Small
Anna Small’s sculptures are derived from her sketches of flowering shapes, insects and birds from the natural world around her. She employs laser cutting technology to transform her sketches into larger specimens that are embellished with copper birds or insects that are hand cut using jewellery techniques. For the finish patina the sculptures are acid treated then placed in the actual garden for weeks where these ‘flowers’ are watered every day enabling the surface ‘rust’ patina to create a random and self -maintaining finish.
Anna enjoys the contradiction of using the idea of the ‘feminine delicacy of jewellery like objects’ and mixing it to a larger, stronger, harder, and more robust material.
Grevillea and Spinebill
Anna Small loves meeting small gifts from nature on walks, recording their beauty and existence.
Reflecting the images from sketches to a larger scale. To draw attention and remind us all about the beauty of the small.
”Once for each thing. Just once; no more.
And we too; just once.
And never again.
But to have been this once, completely, even if only once; to have been at one with the earth, seems beyond undoing.”
Words by Rainer Maria Rilke
Come and see for yourself at SWELL Sculpture Festival, Pacific Parade, Currumbin 12th – 21st September.