Betty Chamberlain, Walter Holt & Josh Scott-Jouir
Betty Chamberlain is an artist from Preston, UK, currently travelling Australia. Her practice explores the stories and inherent meanings of found-objects and materials encountered whilst living a nomadic lifestyle. Influenced by patterns and repetition, order and disorder, Chamberlain examines her relationship to common construction materials, such as concrete meshes, scrap metal and scaffold netting. Informed through work on a pearl farm, she uses assemblage and accumulative sculpture using discarded farming panels. Considering her position as a woman working in predominantly male dominated environments, Chamberlain utilises a combination of typical ‘trade’ methods in conjunction with weaving and wire sculpting.
Walter Holt is an artist of Light and Lenses who has long possessed a penchant for assembling found objects into novel forms.
Josh Scott-Jouir: an inveterate tinkerer who enjoys solving mechanical problems to make the world more beautiful and more functional simultaneously.
Rizal Mahoney is an emerging sculptor and artist fighting entropy through the creation of grounded architectural elements from reclaimed materials.
The Net
Towing a line between hard and soft, ‘The Net’ moves like a blanket with the threat of a barbed wire fence. Salvaged metal slices are abraded and woven like an armour, the mechanical ripples imitating waves, a breath, a sigh.
‘Ghost nets’ are haunting the oceans. Orphaned fishing gear is devastating to aquatic life: a seemingly harmless plastic mesh becomes a binding, suffocating trap; the silent assassins of the seas. Indiscriminate in nature, ghost nets will haunt our seas for years to come.
The Net is a call to action.
Come and see for yourself at SWELL Sculpture Festival, Pacific Parade, Currumbin 12th – 21st September.