Australia, Melbourne, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, 2017

Through phenomenological, poetic and material investigations, I explore experiences that hover on the thresholds of knowledge and mystery, and their potential for expression in material form. I am particularly interested in the generation of new and unique materials, and in creating a rich sensory encounter between art object and beholder.

This series seeks to honour our perceptually rich experiences in the natural world and is an expression of the dynamics of human perception within them – a meshing of natural forces and imagination. Made predominately from a hybrid material of electroplated copper velvet, the pieces are held in the tensions between synthetic and naturally occurring substances and human design and organic growth processes.

Quale – from the titles – translates as ‘a quality or property as perceived or experienced by a person’.