Description
Guundie Kuchling ascribes symbolic significance to objects and natural forms— especially plants, wood and stones. They are rendered in her art works with clarity and simplicity across several mediums.
This piece comprises a trinity of contrasting components: a stone (objet trouvé), enveloped by a woollen, flower-like form, and a wooden disk. In Jungian psychology, a stone symbolises the self; a flower the capacity for personal growth; the disk represents our world. The juxtaposition of solidity and suppleness is a visual metaphor for contrasting but complementary forces.
Materials wool, stone, banksia wood
Measurements (mm) H 150 W 200 L 200
Estimated cost to post within Australia $30
Contact exhibition@swellsculpture.com.au
About Guundie Kuchling
Guundie Kuchling is a practising artist and writer with a Master of Fine Arts degree from Vienna. Her arts practice focuses on oil painting, drawing, print making, sculptures, textile and picture books. Her concepts include serial art, convergence of self and nature, text art and female identity. The visual statements are made with defined lines and shapes and rendered with ingenious simplicity. Guundie exhibits her art works internationally and is represented in collections in Europe, Madagascar, the USA and Australia, including the Art Gallery of Western Australia and the Holmes à Court Collection. Guundie also works as a field assistant for her husband Gerald, a conservation biologist and world turtle expert. The Kuchlings have a backyard filled with pieces of wood, rocks and other collected objects; a labyrinth; native plants and animals; fruit trees and vegetables. Their indoor pool houses fish, frogs and turtles.
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Website www.guundie.com
For enquiries please email exhibition@swellsculpture.com.au