Momentum - Queensland Regional Art Awards 2025

Art for Life Overall winner

For Annie Slade

Reused copper hot water service, refrigeration tubing & 1 x sterling silver and various patina and archival wax using chasing & repousse technique

 2 x 37 x 37cm (each bowl 2x5x5cm)

2025

Artist Statement

This landscape represents the inter sections of my enduring passions: a fascination with seaweed and the technique of chasing and repoussé.

Whilst giving momentum to an ancient technique, these diverge from traditional perfection, embracing the irregularities that arise during the making. Creation is slow and contrasting to the relentless pace of our contemporary world. Every mark a quiet celebration, with momentum driving the rhythmic tapping of the hammer against copper. This meditative act is gradual, each stroke building upon the last, transforming the material into something new.

Connecting to Annie Slade’s 1884 collection (a part of British Marine Algae Collection at JCU Special Collections), sparked a creative dialogue leading to the development of these bowls. Studying her pressed seaweed specimens deepened my understanding of both her pioneering work and the enormous variety of marine algae. The bowl shape references the global significance of seaweed as a potential food source.