ARTIST STATEMENT

My work explores the territory between drawing and object making through an ongoing investigation of the communicative and reciprocal possibilities that exist between a two-dimensional image and a three-dimensional form. I combine metalwork with formal research, creating three dimensional pieces inspired by sacred and ritual objects.

Drawing is central to my work, acting as reference, content and archive to the objects created. Intricate, detailed drawing is combined with fragments and imagery pulled from a personal, collected archive of photographs, objects and mark-making. Work begins with extensive historical and visual research and is then is developed through a combination of drawing and collage, assemblage, carving and fabrication, working and reworking.  I value the history of the making, the marks and traces that are left on the work from this process, for me they embody the heart and soul of the work.

The pieces I make explore the notion of ‘temenos’ or sacred and circumscribed space. The point of departure for the work is found in objects and imagery that attempt to understand an ‘other’ territory, particularly sacred geometries, alchemic diagrams, sacred architecture and mandalas. These inscribed metal artefacts can be seen to function as ‘maps’, in concentrated, coded form, that allow us to tap into an interior world, or into a collective source wisdom

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Biography

Kim Sutherland combines metalwork with formal research, creating three dimensional pieces inspired by sacred and ritual objects. Her work explores the territory between drawing and object making through an ongoing investigation of the communicative and reciprocal possibilities that exist between a two-dimensional image and a three-dimensional form. 

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