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THE work of Tanja-based sculptor Ross Cameron evokes his love of the ocean and a youth surrounded by the spiralling shapes of shells.
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“I like to tell a narrative in my work,” Mr Cameron said from his studio, as he busily prepared for the opening of Sculpture on the Edge in Bermagui this weekend.
“I want people to question themselves and ask themselves, ‘what do they mean?’ and hopefully come up with their own answers to their own question.”
Mr Cameron will be showing various works for the event with his centrepiece a giant three-metre tall version of his smaller fractal-like pieces to be unveiled on Saturday.
“I’m a bit anxious about getting it there in one piece,” he said while painting atop a tall ladder.
It’s been an adventurous step for the artist who plans to work on a larger scale more regularly in the future.
Growing up with a mother who is also a sculptor, it is an art form that has always been an important part of his life, leading him to positions at the Bega Valley Regional Gallery, the Museum Puri Lukisan in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia, and now as creative director of LoneRock Designs.
Some of his smaller works that will also be shown over the weekend are inspired by tribal and ancient megalithic art.
Another Tanja-based artist, Yuri Wiedenhoffer, is once again part of this weekend’s official opening of the 10-day Sculpture on the Edge event.
Traditionally his fire sculpture sparks at the end of the event.
This time it will happen a little earlier and take on a life of its own.
“I follow the weather, so I might be taken by it and let it take me,” Mr Wiedenhoffer said.
“It’s all about discovering along the way, it’s spontaneous.”
His fire sculpture this year is titled Black Square, an ode to Russian painter and art theoretician Kazimir Malevich.
“It’s been 100 years since his work Black Square was produced in 1915, and he was one of the first true painters to move away from portraits and landscapes, plus it was all about black so I thought I would echo that as I work with fire and black carbon is a by-product,” he said.
“I also feel the world is entering a time of uncertainty and my aim is to reflect that in this work.”
Sculpture on the Edge is in Bermagui from Saturday and runs until March 8.