EXTINCTION
Radical Fields Arts and Community proudly presents a new installation in our gallery window by artists, Paul E Mason and Colin Suggett.
A sensor activated installation, these sculptural works are available 24 / 7 for viewing now until Friday Feb 21st at 45 Vincent Street, Daylesford VIC 3460.
Paul E Mason’s, EXTINCTION 2023 – 2025, is a sculptural work incorporating a Thylacine with brass King Plates (gorgets). Additionally his work, MY DREAMTIME ANXIETY CAROUSEL 2022 – 2025 is kinetic hand cranked automaton featuring an illuminated mushroom cloud and an MP3 sound piece.
Colin Suggett’s work RED DOG STALKING 2019 is a kinetic sculptural tribute to his own kelpie dog named Kelly who died in 2010.
Paul’s work will be featured at our second annual Harvest, a one day regional arts festival in a paddock. Saturday – March 22nd – 10:00am – 5:00pm at Lyonbank Farm (259 Back Glenlyon Rd) Glenlyon. Free entry / All ages and abilities event and Dog Friendly (on lead). BYO Picnic.
21st Century Reliquaries Encounter c.1800 Terra Australis.
The contemporary reliquary – an object that is good to think.
An art exhibition that references the Baudin expedition might lead one to expect realist work influenced by the Enlightenment tradition of the artist scientist. Paul Mason, however, references another artistic tradition, that of the reliquary. While he eschews the directly religious and spiritual connotations of the reliquary, Mason preserves the relic’s symbolic density and concern with veneration and celebration of the object and its link to larger themes. Thus Mason uses gold and gold leaf from Imperial France and diorite from Aboriginal Australia as materials that confer sacred value on otherwise ordinary objects. Mason’s representations of human beings, whether European or Indigenous also eschews the Enlightenment humanism of the Baudin expedition artists; He adopts an archetypal mode of representation that allows us to see a differently patterned colonial encounter.
Gerry Gill – La Trobe University
LOOKING FOR BAUDIN RELIQUARY 2017
Diorite, oak, lead, resin, plastic, silver braid. 32X9x25cm.
LAPEROUSE RELIQUARY 2016
Kauri, othoceras fossil, acrylic, lead, resin, aluminium, plastic, gold leaf, silver braid. 18x34x24cm.
HOPKINS RIVER TRADE RELIQUARY 2014
Diorite (Gunditjmara country), casuarina, Australian cedar, brass, gold leaf. 53x44x17cm.
D’ENTRECASTEAUX RELIQUARY 2016
Diorite, kauri, gold leaf, plastic,resin, silver braid. 28x19x25cm.
BAUDIN’S COASTAL PROFILE RELIQUARY 2018
Pewter, wood, resin, Kimberly coastal rocks, diorite, aluminium, gold leaf. 61x20x26cm.
BAUDIN’S COLONIAL PROSPECTING RELIQUARY 2017
Diorite, brass, pewter, nylon, silver braid, Kimberly coastal rocks. 54x17x32cm.
EMPRESS JOSEPHINE’S COASTAL PROFILE RELIQUARY 2017
Kauri, pewter, nylon, Kimberly coastal rocks. 40x30x25cm.