Crossing Over the Line
2021 - Carrara marble and broken coil ceramic pot - 62cm x 58cm
There is a dance between texture and space along with the fragility of the broken ceramic clay pot. There is respect for the continued beauty of the recycled clay and the celebration of its colour and texture. And there is dialogue between the marble and the clay, assembled as a labyrinth. Do we cross from one passage to the other in the labyrinth … are we crossing over the line?
Shifting Sand
2021 - marble on hand-made mesh substrate - 65cm x 65cm
Shifting Sand has been largely made using a single sheet of marble, meticulously cut and rearranged to simulate shifting sand. The rippling effect is the result of meticulous cutting and alignment of individual marble veins. Stone is the hero.
Rupture
2021 - marble, slate, Italian smalti on hand-made mesh substrate - 70cm x 62cm
Rupture entices touch, heightening the fragile and complex intertwined ecologies of material and mental health that have been thrown into even more heightened states during Covid-19 isolation.
Substance
2021 - four colors of Indian sandstone - teakwood, Raj green brown, white mint and Shivuri pink - 43cm x 42cm
Substance reflects both the material characteristics of the place and the diversity of people at Collingwood Yards in Melbourne, where Louise Marson has her studio. Substance is a homage to Jacquelin Low, who refined the use of paving materials to connect the two main buildings and championed the development of this unique creative community as the sites' inaugural General Manager.
Liquefaction
2021 - marble, travertine, Italian smalti - 44cm x 55cm
Stable to the unstable. The uncertainty of the moment as what was solid, goes into liquefaction. Nothing is static. Becoming something else - the act of becoming.
Tectonic
2021 - travertine and self made substrate - 57cm x 56cm
The pushing, pulling, scraping and melting in response to changes in the earth's crust.
Subterranean
2021- travertine and self made substrate - 60cm x 58cm
A glimpse of being, lying or operating under the surface of the earth's crust. If you pay attention you can see the earth crying out beneath us.
FORGING A HEAD
Forging A Head is a metaphoric vehicle for Louise’s ongoing mental health journey through the ravages of 2020 and 2021’s Covid-19 isolation. A deeply challenging time for all Victorians, that has provoked an even more complex matrix of difficulties for those most vulnerable to the ongoing effects of social isolation. Coming from someone already too familiar with sensations of alienation and hopelessness, Forging A Head is a forward-thinking practice-based means to see and feel beyond the myopia of this unique time harnessing Greco-Roman mosaic techniques yet incising them. The works appear to breathe in and out, revealing interwoven textural sublayers. Like peeled layers of skin, there is implied movement in the stone, from still to undulating gently or wildly, as though music writhing in and out of control, and reflect themes of diversity, experimentation and underscore the merits of risk. Through this act of making, the non-figurative works guide a strategic, shifting, dance between maker and material. The stone is allowed to 'breathe' and builds tenuous interconnected threads that are simultaneously strong yet unstable, restless and without a singular point of arrival.
Photography - Pamela Kleeman-Passi