Shattered – Urn

Reclaimed ceramics, recycled eco-dyed silk shirts and cotton thread are handstitched to portray the 2019/20 fires

Description

This piece is now in the Tamworth Regional Gallery collection.

Reclaimed ceramics, recycled eco-dyed silk shirts and cotton thread are handstitched to portray the 2019/20 fires which destroyed vast areas, devasting eco systems and shattering lives. The landscape has been consumed and numerous lives lost, leaving communities reeling from the shock.

Work has now turned to the welfare of those impacted. Such experiences are never forgotten, remaining part of us always.  As seasons pass, we will find ourselves marvelling at the first green growth against the black backdrop of our burnt country. Lives will be slowly stitched back.

17h x 17.3 x 17.3cm