Room for the Hunter

2019 UniSA Graduate Show and Helpmann Academy Graduate Show 2020

Conceived as an architecture or universe in itself, Room for the Hunter is a collection of objects that centres around the idea of digging. Deleuze and Guattari claim “…the first architectural gesture is acted about the earth, it is our grave or foundation.” The gesture captured is an excavation, an emptiness repeatedly dug and suspended in these forms. The flat surface of each block creates a plane which can be transformed into a wall, a floor, a structure, a pattern. The story of becoming, of the first action, breaks the surface of each.

The entire body of work expands out from this action as the core motif. Linked to archaeology, the process involves the casting of a hand-dug void. The resulting positive form provides an identical displacement when the concrete form is poured. Each block has within it, a unique cast of an action.