Metal StormJames Gorrie6 - 20 August 2022
Metal Storm is about the intersection of urban living clashing with the bush. The expended machine age is dumped on the urban fringe where the two meet and chaos is the outcome or some would say urban hell. Car parts, metal machinery, the industrial revolution found in the bush, dumped or burnt is now reinvented into machine art.
All components are found or scavenged, nothing is new. Steel products that were made for car parts or machinery are now just lying in the bush.
With these works James reinstates some of the value into the workmanship that went into these creations.
This exhibition has now closed.
If you would like to check the availability of a piece from this exhibition, please contact DVA for the artist's contact information:
2022
Recycled metal
60cm L x 80cm H x 60cm W
$249 SOLD
"Elegant, light and comfortable. Inspired by the crown and made from a metal clothes horse, hills hoist, hack saw blade."
2022
Recycled metal
120 L x 120cm H x 50cm W
$209
"The tradesmen have many tools and is usually emotionally attached to certain implements. At morning tea and lunch, they sit on chairs surrounded by their tools, this makes them feel comfortable"
2022
Recycled metal
TBC
$199
"Gardening is all about using hand tools and working ones muscles. We did the work by carrying all the tools in the wheelbarrow and pruned, chipped weeds, cut vines, pruned roses, dug weeds."
2022
Recycled metal
120 L x 120cm H x 50cm W
$449
"The metal sculpture represents Corona Virus. I was inspired by the aggressive images of covid 19, if you get covid you may need oxygen from tanks to stay alive and sadly some do not make it, the cross represents the death toll. The current corona virus strain is so virulent and aggressive, so the sculpture had to look mad and angry like a wild beast. The circular saw blades are symbolic of the virulence and speed that the delta strain can cut through the immune system"
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