Siobhan Hapaska's sculptures incorporate extraordinary objects from palm trees to buffalo skulls, goat skins to old socks.
They create metaphors reflecting on the fundamentals of life, unearthing the unsaid and the troubling.
Her sculptures of the mid 1990s had highly finished metallic fibreglass surfaces. Her new works reflect on how things have changed since. Their scale is larger than human. Themes of fertility and potential abound in 'Dry Spring' which uses copper pipe and flowers.
Politics, technology, speed, travel and nature are all made reference to, but ultimately you are encouraged to open your minds to the space her sculptures leave for imaginations to take hold.
my heart sang when i first saw slides of her work at a friday event, i can't remember what she said but it was very very important. i think i smiled the whole way through her talk which has never happened before or since.
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