Description
Making reference to the environmental degradation and bleaching of The Great Barrier Reef, the cast coral explores the embodiment of memory in objects and the participation of form to meaning and perception.
The work muses on correspondences across time, place and space. It leverages the innate personality within the form; the heart shape and the appearance of faces, to poetically suggest a subjective plight of the infamous and irreplaceable reef where it was cast.
Materials Cast plaster, found plastic
Measurements (mm) H 100 W 120 L 160
Editions: 1 of 7
Estimated cost to post within Australia $50
Contact exhibition@swellsculpture.com.au
About Paul Kalemba
Paul Kalemba is a first generation Australian artist with a broad and inquisitive practice ranging from painting, photography and video, to assemblage, public sculpture and intervention. Paul’s practice combines traditional and contemporary processes to tell stories of ecologies and place. It is inspired by intersecting knowledge within phenomena, tradition, myth, and natural science. Paul’s work often combines in-situ documentation or casting with collected objects in response to ethereal experiences within nature.
Since graduating as Master of Visual Art at Victorian College of the Arts in 2008 Paul has exhibited in Australia, Korea, Germany, Finland and Iceland. He has been a finalist in the Paul Guest Prize at The Bendigo Art Gallery , The Nillubik Award at Montsalvat, The Banjule Award for Works on Paper, The Wyndham Art Award and the National Still Life award at Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery. In 2018 he was the recipient of the Hume Art Award.
Instagram @paul.kalemba
Website www.PjKalemba.com
For enquiries please email exhibition@swellsculpture.com.au
