Date: 2013

Location: Sydney, Australia

Project: Public Art / International Exhibition

Partners: Finisterre, Sculpture by the Sea, Sell + Parker

Artist: Jack Davis

We are delighted to present the emerging English artist Jack Davis as one of the international exhibiting artists at this year’s Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, selected by the curatorial panel from over 500 submissions across 25 countries. 

Sculpture by the Sea is the world's largest outdoor sculpture exhibition held annually along the Bondi and Cottesloe coastlines. With over 1 million visitors each year, the free to the public exhibitions feature works by over 1000 artists placed outdoors along a 4km stretch of coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean, which has featured Sir Anthony Caro, Tony Cragg, Zadok Ben-David, and Zhan Wang. 

Contradicting our perception of materials, Davis turns steel into soft flowing forms, and places works in outside landscapes to juxtapose against their own constricted space. The artist approaches the natural environment both in terms of identifiable places; sites that can be mapped, inhabited and released, producing a rich variety of textures, marks and layers which build a sense of transformation within the landscape. Davis’ sculptures start as painted flat sheets of metal, transformed into highly colourful relics; becoming futuristic monuments for 21st century moments in space and time.

The site-specific work Force of Nature is in direct response to the Australian landscape. Exploring the continent’s natural palette with studies of the coastline’s topography; merging the notion of opposing forces, land meeting sea and man meeting environment.

An interview with the artist about the work for Sculpture by the Sea 2013 can be watched here