Goanna Rising
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Artist: Nick Warfield
Title: Goanna Rising
Year: 2021
Materials: Found object assemblage. Welded galvanised steel coil frame, salvaged automotive plastics, stainless steel fasteners
Dimensions: 1800mm x 600mm x 560mm (LxWxH)
Goanna Rising
As clock spins faster than moon plays with tide and distance between us & nature becomes increasingly wide as our myth and meaning fall faint under the tik tok of tech.
The times we are headed for spell ruin & wreck but hidden in the undergrowth crawling through our psyche a goanna is rising to protect us from catostrophe existing in our memories in a time of natural lore. if you are quite enough to listen he will rise to the fore.
A creature painted with the markings of lands creation the image of inner strength, healing and spiritual protection. The only being strong enough to take on the serpent an inner spirit we must call on to fight our predicament. Goanna rising to those that feel the call to action that see the need to return to our primal connection to live the stories again that are written on the tide to cast aside the clock, and let the tik tok subside.
https://vimeo.com/user64680485/download/601492584/d7d764fa14
Title: Goanna Rising
Year: 2021
Materials: Found object assemblage. Welded galvanised steel coil frame, salvaged automotive plastics, stainless steel fasteners
Dimensions: 1800mm x 600mm x 560mm (LxWxH)
Goanna Rising
As clock spins faster than moon plays with tide and distance between us & nature becomes increasingly wide as our myth and meaning fall faint under the tik tok of tech.
The times we are headed for spell ruin & wreck but hidden in the undergrowth crawling through our psyche a goanna is rising to protect us from catostrophe existing in our memories in a time of natural lore. if you are quite enough to listen he will rise to the fore.
A creature painted with the markings of lands creation the image of inner strength, healing and spiritual protection. The only being strong enough to take on the serpent an inner spirit we must call on to fight our predicament. Goanna rising to those that feel the call to action that see the need to return to our primal connection to live the stories again that are written on the tide to cast aside the clock, and let the tik tok subside.
https://vimeo.com/user64680485/download/601492584/d7d764fa14
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Ethos
I believe everybody is living their own myth. That the earth thinks in myth to use an idea cultivated by Dr Martin Shaw. and that myth is how we find a language to hold a place within it.
Some are more conscious than others but that on some level we are all yearning for ways to feed and nourish a mythic, meaningful existence. My work is deeply steeped in this idea and for me wild animals, that I encounter, have become a spiritual medium to populate my own story with characters. Characters that can offer guidance, totemic spirit and archetype.
There is a universality to this relationship. There is a reason why Polar Bears symbolise climate change or Koalas symbolise forest conservation and I don’t think it is purely on functional terms, it embodies a spirit that emboldens people to action and investment.
Animals speak to us on the mythic plane, they are a powerful embodiment of pure potential and existence, that lack neurotic behaviours and self awareness that so often disconnect us humans and sway us from the path. Their existence is a dance with the natural rhythms and harmonies of natural lore and as human beings we inherently understand this.
I have been a practicing artist, mainly in the medium of Sculpture for the past decade. initially after leaving secondary school I had a passion for architecture and design and studied building design, engineering and drafting at TAFE in South East QLD. Through this period I developed an interest or a focus more in form than function and so decided to change direction and enrolled in a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Newcastle.
I took to sculpture like a duck to water.
Halfway through my degree I grew impatient and decided to leave to pursue my art on my own.
I moved to the country on the Mid North Coast of NSW and have been developing my style and sculpture practice ever since.
I am currently living on Gumbaynggirr country in Bowraville in the Nambucca Valley.
Practice
My artistic practice currently is focused on creating sculptural pieces of animals especially birdlife. My technique or medium can be described as Found Object Assemblage.
The bulk of the materials I use in my sculptures are salvaged & recycled, sourced mainly from commercial waste products such as automotive plastic but over the years have explored various elements including timber, steel.
My work can be categorised into five fields which include:
I believe everybody is living their own myth. That the earth thinks in myth to use an idea cultivated by Dr Martin Shaw. and that myth is how we find a language to hold a place within it.
Some are more conscious than others but that on some level we are all yearning for ways to feed and nourish a mythic, meaningful existence. My work is deeply steeped in this idea and for me wild animals, that I encounter, have become a spiritual medium to populate my own story with characters. Characters that can offer guidance, totemic spirit and archetype.
There is a universality to this relationship. There is a reason why Polar Bears symbolise climate change or Koalas symbolise forest conservation and I don’t think it is purely on functional terms, it embodies a spirit that emboldens people to action and investment.
Animals speak to us on the mythic plane, they are a powerful embodiment of pure potential and existence, that lack neurotic behaviours and self awareness that so often disconnect us humans and sway us from the path. Their existence is a dance with the natural rhythms and harmonies of natural lore and as human beings we inherently understand this.
I have been a practicing artist, mainly in the medium of Sculpture for the past decade. initially after leaving secondary school I had a passion for architecture and design and studied building design, engineering and drafting at TAFE in South East QLD. Through this period I developed an interest or a focus more in form than function and so decided to change direction and enrolled in a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Newcastle.
I took to sculpture like a duck to water.
Halfway through my degree I grew impatient and decided to leave to pursue my art on my own.
I moved to the country on the Mid North Coast of NSW and have been developing my style and sculpture practice ever since.
I am currently living on Gumbaynggirr country in Bowraville in the Nambucca Valley.
Practice
My artistic practice currently is focused on creating sculptural pieces of animals especially birdlife. My technique or medium can be described as Found Object Assemblage.
The bulk of the materials I use in my sculptures are salvaged & recycled, sourced mainly from commercial waste products such as automotive plastic but over the years have explored various elements including timber, steel.
My work can be categorised into five fields which include:
- Large scale commissions for Public and Private organisations, companies and institutions.
- Large scale private commissions for private collectors
- Small scale private commissions for private collectors
- Small scale commissions for small community organisations
- Work for exhibitions