May Featured Artist
Mel Castleman
Title: Cocoons
Medium: Found organic and manmade materials
Location: Chan & Naylor
Medium: Found organic and manmade materials
Location: Chan & Naylor
Artist statement
Cocoons represent hidden potential,
latent power, a resting time of unseen change between phases of action, growth,
birth, death and destruction.
This is me and my hidden connection
to the land. I am white skinned, grew up
in town. Not indigenous and not from a
farming family but I feel a strong connection to the land, to nature.
This “making” is Nichol’s Point
Cemetery and the surrounding bushland.
From an early age I liked this area and would ride my bike out here from
town to Bruce’s Bend. Since then friends
and family have been buried at the old cemetery.
This is my search for connection and
validation of belonging.
May Featured Artist
Win Moser
Title: Home is where the heart is
Medium: re-used prints, various papers, wax
Medium: re-used prints, various papers, wax
Location: Premier Art Supplies
Artist statement
Playing
around with wax, old prints and drawings, following a recent encaustic
workshop, led me to create the basic shape that universally symbolizes house/home.
Not
every house is a home, and a “home” is much
more than a house – home is where the heart is?
My
use of paper reflects the fragile nature of home. Many people have never had a
safe home and many homes become unsafe places to live, particularly for people
such as refugees seeking asylum on our homeland, who live in detention while
being “processed offshore”.
May
2016
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