Interview on Art-Resource

I've been interviewed by Steve Gray on Art-Resource about my sculpture.

Deloraine Adonises, nearing their investment

I am having a few problems getting these two brothers from Northern Tasmania into their final form, before investment. The wax figures have been hollowed to 5mm or so, then a plaster and sand core poured in. Nails will be used to hold the core in place when the wax is melted out of the investment.

They are Consorts to the Mountain Goddess, which in their case it must be Quamby Bluff.

The one with its bum to us has been officially named, "Are you blaming this on our generation?"

The other one I am not so sure. Perhaps a string of curses.

They are less abstract than the previous consorts, and double the size, required a core to save metal. Hopefully this will lead to fewer incidents of back strain.

The advice came in to do bigger pieces, do finer features, I think took this on board to mean more naturalism, but the next advice was, well, 'Your abstract forms..."

As I am interesting primarily in the symbolic, the naturalism/abstract conversation is of little interest to me. The symbolic is where we do our thinking after all, and truth and beauty are just teases....

It is my interest in the symbolic that leads me to prefer artefacts to art. I want to make artifacts, and so make the symbolic substantial, even if they then need a core to make them safe for bad backs.

Map of Tasmania Consort, added to Saatchi-Online

Well, belatedly, I've discovered Saatchi-Online Gallery. It's got too much, from crits to book promotion, a gazillion adds, three columns twenty feet deep. It's like myspace for art, i.e. messy reloading shit, but I do have a presence there now with the Map of Tassie consort (above), and the Deep-toed Consort. (Saatchi-Online's thumb nail generator is very annoying, particularly with my images, as the statuette photos have such strong lines.)

Rate this Consort at the Saatchi Showdown.

Some Consorts Available at artflock.com

I've put up for sale some of the bronze consorts on artflock.com.

My profile page is http://www.artflock.com/artist/meika.

Spacehead, Bunny Boots: Consort to the Mountain Goddess

Ram Daggerman, Consort to the Mountain Goddess

Sunhead Consort to the Mountain Goddess

Sigi's 70th birthday Present.

The Sunhead Consort is based on the Spacehead.

In turn, the Spacehead Consort was inspired by an early Cretan Consort to the Mountain Goddess.

Described as

MINOAN SMALL BRONZE VOTIVE MALE, Worshipper wearing loin-cloth, right hand upraised to his head. Crete, Late Minoan I, ca. 1600-1500 BC Height 6.3 cm.