My most recent artwork, Silent Gesture, was exhibited at Watch This Space gallery together with 6 other artists, including from interstate, local and elsewhere in the Territory. It is a very big hand (2.4m high) and is an experiment in using materials that enable a view of internal structure as well as defining the final surface.

Installing the big hand

The gesture is the final posture of a hand movement used by local people in hand-signing and generally means  “What’s going on?” or  “What’s up?”. This sculpture is to remind us of communication networks and how our hands are probably the earliest form of mobile device capable of allowing visual communication over distance.

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