Description
The Pixies 1988 song “Where is my mind” – is a stream of consciousness piece of writing, but also indicates a greater motive behind the lyrics. Frank Black’s lyric about a fish trying to talk to him in the Caribbean, alludes to the idea of the connection between all things – consciousness realising itself through many forms. Hickson suggests this connection requires our cooperation with nature rather than our domination of it. The sculpture, although figurative, could be botanical, human or animal, blurring this separation.
Materials Reclaimed wood, watercolour, permanent marker.
Measurements (mm) H 500 W 120 L 80
Estimated cost to post within Australia $45
Contact exhibition@swellsculpture.com.au
About David Hickson
Born in Aotearoa/New Zealand in 1971, Dave lived in Auckland, Canterbury and Singapore before moving to Australia to live in Sydney’s Inner West in 1997. He has lived on Minjungbal Country on the New South Wales Far North Coast since 2008.
Dave majored in sculpture at the National Art School in Sydney, winning the Julian Beaumont Sculpture Prize in 2002, and graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours in Sculpture in 2003. In 2005 he completed a Graduate Diploma in Education at the University of Technology in Sydney (UTS) and is now a part time sculpture teacher at TAFE NSW campuses in the Northern Rivers. He primarily works from his studio in Ocean Shores.
Dave uses sculpture, photography and drawing to research concepts expressed in figuration and abstraction.
Instagram @davehickson1
Website www.davehickson.net
For enquiries please email exhibition@swellsculpture.com.au
