Small sculpture

Working at a small scale encourages me to find the essence of what I am trying to say. These smaller works describe an aspect of the world around me, a snippet of something I have seen and respond to. There is no room for detail or complexity. Rather it is a subtractive process as I need to find ways to say more with less. So the work is at a scale that is approachable and easy to negotiate.

I work mostly in brass, forming and fabricating the metal to shape it to fit the image I have in my mind. I do not plan these works in detail. Once I have a sketch of an idea I begin, rarely referring to the drawing. This creates a dialogue because the work often tells me how to progress.

One of these sculptures, Dilemma, won the 2024 Urunga Small Sculpture Prize.

If sculpture can be categorised by size, these are heart-sized works and my larger sculptures are human-sized.