Nervous Pastorals - Rose Moxham (QLD)

ROSE MOXHAM - Nervous Pastorals

Rose Moxham writes of Nervous Pastorals:

I spend a lot of time in bush timberyards and workshops, and the wood for these works began as throwaways from other saws.  I’m a gleaner, always looking for offcuts with an angle, an edge, that triggers a possibility. And when I’ve found it, I cut again and shape the wood, which morphs with each further cut, bite of chisel and pass of the plane, and eventually is formed into something approaching my vision, which is about the mangrove because that’s where I live.
 
There is a sentience in the mangrove: trees growing crosshatch provide protection from the winds and tides for the whole. Moving through it there is a peaceful solitude like that of the idealised pastoral. But it feels jittery too, as if the systems for that protection are fracturing.
 
The patination of the bronzes references the mildewed, almost petrified, tendrils, twigs, branches and sometimes creatures that climb, perch, languish, cling to the wood wherever they can get a hold’.

This will be Moxham's third solo exhibition at Stala Contemporary.