New ARTBOX displays: Time Sculpture and The Copy
The Copy, 2024. Installation view. Photography by Estelle Yoon. Courtesy of Verge Gallery.
Across Fisher Library, visitors can encounter three glass showcases featuring works by emerging artists. The works are created by students at the Sydney College of the Arts and are curated in collaboration with Verge Gallery as part of their Verge Projects initiative. Being displayed in ARTBOX gives students the opportunity to show their work to new audiences and gain exhibiting experience. For visitors, ARTBOX offers a chance to discover new artists and gain insight into their practice. ARTBOX displays are rotated throughout the year and feature works from artists across disciplines.
Visit ARTBOX on levels 2, 3 and 4 of Fisher Library.
The Copy (levels 2 and 3)
Displayed across the ARTBOX displays on levels 2 and 3, The Copy features Sydney College of the Arts second-year students reimagining ceramics, glass, and textiles. It's a study in duality: tradition versus innovation, fragility against resilience. Porcelain and banquet settings question functionality while invoking historical context. The painstaking creation of glass beads illuminates the incremental growth inherent to creative practice. Nietzsche’s concept of eternal recurrence is explored, framing replication as both an homage and a step towards new beginnings. Each artwork is a dialogue around authenticity, suggesting that the act of copying is an integral part of creative evolution.
This class was tutored by Jane Gavan.
Artists inlcuded: Emily Beattie, Kirsten Beccaris, Nikky Chen, Zhihan Chen, Stella Janssens, Alexandra Mercado, Ryan Ouyang, Yi Pan (Yuumi), Hanna Park, Jialu Shi (Lucy), Wren Thomas, Eloise Tilbury, Antonia Tomkins, Peri Wilson-Morris, Chenye Xiang.
Individual artist statements can be viewed on the Verge Gallery website.
Watch a video of Kirsten Beccaris speaking about her work Forever Unfinished on the Library's Instagram.
Watch a video of Wren Thomas speaking about her work Swan Maiden on the Library's Instagram.
Peri Wilson-Morris, CtrlC 2024, glass, photography, 2024. Photography by Estelle Yoon. Courtesy of Verge Gallery.
Ryan Ouyang, How to eat slower, 2024, ceramic, brass wire. Photography by Estelle Yoon. Courtesy of Verge Gallery.
Kirsten Beccaris, Forever Unfinished, 2024, kiln fused/sandblasted float glass, copper wire and handmade lampwork glass beads. Photography by Estelle Yoon.
Kirsten Beccaris installing her artwork. Photography by Vanessa Low for the University of Sydney Library.
The Copy, 2024. Installation view. Photography by Estelle Yoon. Courtesy of Verge Gallery.
From top to bottom, left to right: Hanna Park, Aqueous, 2024, glass. Alexandra Mercado, Kumain tayo [let’s eat], 2024, ceramic dinnerware, cloth, acrylic on flowers. Chenye Xiang, Forever Home, white raku clay, underglaze, gloss glaze. Photography by Estelle Yoon. Courtesy of Verge Gallery.
Left to right: Wren Thomas, Swan Maiden, 2024, recycled materials (yarn, fabric, beads), wooden dowel, gold leaf, fishing line. Stella Janssens, The Epithet, 2024, porcelain. Photography by Estelle Yoon. Courtesy of Verge Gallery.
Artist Wren Thomas installing her artwork. Photography by Vanessa Low for the University of Sydney Library.
Time Sculpture (level 4)
Students in the Sydney College of the Arts course “Sculpture: Form and Material” were asked to create a “Small Sculpture” using materials at hand. The result was a range of works with a common theme of time and inheritance. Each semester brings different preoccupations to the surface in the work of emerging artists and this class proves no exception. The deeply personal works can be read biographically, as the artists explore legacy and memories of childhood, but also take shape as distinct forms, highlighting the interplay between interpretation and experience.
This class was tutored by Zoe Robertson.
Artists inlcuded: Kirsten Beccaris, Jess Fitzpatrick, Yalan Gao, Eloise Tilbury and Bee Walker.
Individual artist statements can be viewed on the Verge Gallery website.
Watch a video of Bee Walker speaking about their work what a waste on the Library's Instagram.
From left to right: Kirsten Beccaris, A shadow without its flame, 2024, wax and wire. Jess Fitzpatrick, Drippy Castles, 2024, wax and sand. Photography by Estelle Yoon. Courtesy of Verge Gallery.
Eloise Tilbury, Hereditary, 2024, cotton thread and organza. Photography by Estelle Yoon. Courtesy of Verge Gallery.
Time Sculpture Small Sculptures from “Sculpture: Form and Material,” 2024. Installation view. Photography by Estelle Yoon. Courtesy of Verge Gallery.
Artist Bee Walker installing their artwork. Photography by Vanessa Low for the University of Sydney Library.
Time Sculpture Small Sculptures from “Sculpture: Form and Material,” 2024. Installation view. Photography by Estelle Yoon. Courtesy of Verge Gallery.