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University of Sydney NSW 2006
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Hemispheres
Adam Laerkesen +Stephen Crane

A series of visceral works that hold captive liquids in various states - water condensing in acrylic boxes, blood, oil and air pumped through clear plastic arteries: steam escaping through resinous membranes.

 
Adam Laerkesen
 
Stephen Crane
 

Adam Laerkesen
Adam creates out of intuition, instinct and vision. It is not until he has completed the work that he has any real clarity of what his artistic intention is. This allows the viewer to imbue the sculptures with their own poetry and imagination.

What is emerging through these sculptures on one level is the theme of the mutation of nature.   So the gallery space in the context of these sculptures can be seen as a laboratory where experiments on nature have been carried out, albeit poetic ones.

Description
Five wall and two floor pieces consisting of tree branches that have been cut, reassembled and flocked to create forms that allude to celestial bodies that could also dwell within the human body.

A single wall piece made of fibreglass and resin which has been draped over a deer's head with cast antler's attached and a lantern placed on the floor beneath the draped deer's head.   The whole piece is flock finished.

3 x rectilinear Perspex boxes attached to an operating boiler generating pools of steam and condensation into the three units that contain intricate scenes.

Stephen Crane
Stephen Crane's work centres on the dynamics of fluids as essence of power, of life, of reflection and consists of a number of works that entail pumps and compressed air to animate the forms that contain them.   Across the floor swims a school of what at first appears to be eels but on closer examination are revealed as submersible machines of varying ages.   Inside a clear acrylic pillar flattened bubbles of air continue their slow motion dance as they arise inexorably towards the surface.   Reflective mechanical rivers distort our view of the world whilst liquid and air running through tubular mesh, create a visual miasma of evaporation and entropy.