Art in Observation

Stuart Haygarth

BARNACLE (black) (2009)Cast black polyester resin, steel structure, sprayed MDF
Size: 225 cm long x 110cm high x 84cm wide

OPTICAL (2007) - Edition of 10 (5 large & 5 small)
Prescription spectacle lenses, monofilament line,
sprayed MDF platform

I am all about art made with found objects, especially garbage

DROP (2007)
The first Drop chandelier was produced as a
performance piece during Design Miami 2007.

Paul Dibble

Tableau Mermaid and Navigator 4/5

Bronze

60 × 32 × 16.5 cm

Soaring, 2010

Bronze and Corten steel

270 × 200 × 139 cm

Tui-ee-ee, 2009

Bronze and Corten Steel

320 × 320 × 150 cm

Neil Dawson

Floating Horizons, 1994

Painted Steel

Chalice, 2001

Painted Steel

Neil Dawson is a prominent sculpture from New Zealand dealing mostly with environmental issues and global concerns with large scale, site spastic work. Many sculptures are on display in public sites, such as at the entrance to the Olympics, held in Australia in 2000.

I absolutely love Neil's work that is suspended. He often thinks of the sky as his canvas. I feel that the intricacies of his laser cut sculptures, mirror the intricacy of our environment and the delicate state that it's in.

An interesting aspect about Neil's art is the way it incorporates the world around, into the entire experience. It becomes about more than the sculpture itself because you can't view it, without seeing the surrounding environment. It's a very interesting way to make the viewer contemplate global issues.

"one gets to know each in glances’ and ‘when people describe my work, they describe the day – they think of the whole experience...not just the object"

Neil Dawson