Artist Statement
Events inform content. Content by implication, constructs. Art evaluates "being there", linking events at the edge to living the silence of our personal space. Some constructs are strange and unfamiliar. The work contains elements of the known and the abstract; the relationship between the pieces is intriguing but unknowable. Components relate to other components by the presence of being there but no amount of dialogue will explain what is there.
Every piece is of its time, as it was made. The timeframe of the making is essential to the work, content is dictated by it. The artist's vision of an inviolate figure in a difficult world, exploring the twilight.
My world-view has been informed and infused with many links and connections. A Buddhist frame of reference, the aboriginal position of "being in the landscape". The poetry of Dante, the sculpture of Bernini, the celebration of the spiritual, not esoteric but the state of "being there", throw in a pinch of Bosch and Breughel for their humanity and Vermeer for the silence in his paintings, as well as an observation made by Princeton physicist John Wheeler who put forward the idea that "meaning itself powers creation".
Evocative and resonant the forms are powerfully still and quiet, their presence soothing.
Adrian Mauriks, 2009
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Fire Within Two
2009
Maquette
Painted epoxy resin
Proposed size 1250 cm x 1250 cm x 450 cm
Recently commissioned by Hobsons Bay City Council as part of the Images Of The West Public Art Program - Laverton Gateway, Laverton, Australia
Photographs of the work in progress
Recent Works
Fire Within
2009
Bronze
28 x 50 cm
Finalist in the inaugural Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award and exhibition 2009
Recommended Reading
Recommended Viewing
Lilies, 2005
Lilies was exhibited as a part of the Contempora 2, Docklands Festival of Sculpture at New Quay, Melbourne, Australia
Compilation, 2003
Compilation was exhibited in the Shanghai Art Fair, November 2004, Shanghai, China
Silence, 2001-2002
Commissioned by MAB Corporation for Docklands New Quay Precinct, Melbourne, Australia
Bird Totem, 1988
Commissioned by the AMP Society for the World Trade Centre and National Bank Building Plaza, corner George Street and Jamieson Street, Sydney, Australia
"Altruism is a way of preventing exterminating humanity."
(many thinkers)
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