PRACTICE
I am interested in articulating the immaterial in the material,
focusing on an investigation into actions, materials and process that
physically articulate ideas regarding impermanence, transience, excess, decay
and mutation as three-dimensional forms and spatial interventions. The work predominantly
takes the form of sculptural assemblages and object based installation further expanding
into drawing, painting, ceramics, video and sound.
My practice aims to produce un-hinged objects and environments in
which desires, fears and secrets are made tangible, creating emotional and
psychological yet playful and absurd interactions between divergent forms,
materials and ideas.
I am interested in exploring dichotomies, creating collisions
between oppositions; hard and soft, permanent and impermanent, control and
surrender. These things are
articulated through process of production, materials and forms that often evoke
the poetic, the body, the unknown, the intangible, the symbolic and the
imaginary. Components and materials from previous works are often reworked into
new assemblages, retaining the memory and history of their previous
incarnations, thus the sculptural works often become an indefinable temporal
collage of different locations, thoughts and ideas always in a state of flux
and never finding a definitive point of definition.
I
completed Honours in Fine Art at VCA in 2008 and have participated in a number of solo
and group exhibitions in Melbourne and Europe. In 2008 I was the winner of the
Wangaratta Sculpture Biennale Ephemeral Prize. I was awarded the Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship for
Sculpture in 2009 and traveled to Europe in 2009 and 2010 participating in
residencies and exhibitions at Polymer Culture House, Tallinn Estonia, TAKT
Artist in Residence, Berlin, Germany and the Watermill Center, Long Island, New
York. In 2010 I was the recipient of an Australia Council Art Start Grant. I have recently exhibited at the Linden
Gallery for Contemporary Art and am part of upcoming exhibition at Utopian
Slumps in Melbourne.
CONTACT
rebecca.delange@gmail.com
