The Ongoing Remains Part 1 - The Emissaries, Keepers of our stories - 2019
26 unique state casts on steel bases
gypsum cement, titanium pigment, blackened steel
cast dimensions vary - approximately 46 x 21 x 22 cm
base dimensions 130 x 33.5 x 33.5 cm
overall installaled dimensions vary
1: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Vestibule installation view
2: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Vestibule installation view
3: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Grand Court installation view
4: Cast #3 of 26
5: Cast #22 of 26
6: Cast #26 of 26
7: Cast #20 of 26
8: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Vestibule installation view
Commissioned by the Art Gallery Of New South Wales for The National: New Australian Art 2019, The Ongoing Remains: 3 Parts comprised sculptural, moving image and photographic elements presented in different spaces thoughtout the Gallery's neo-classical and modernist buildings.
The 26 casts result from an intentionally imprecise casting process. Working with two sets of three-part moulds taken from the same subject, I interchange the two moulds individual components, applying a process of intentional misalignment. Interchanging the component parts of the variant moulds enables me to produce hybrid moulds for each pour, which are then further individualised by being subjected to differing localised external pressures.
The intention is not to reproduce uniform copies, rather unique states which explore and exploit resulting processual anomalies.
