On Watch
Issues confront us, and then there is the uncertainty of how much time we have to address them - between these two poles a tenuous relationship holds. What, we wonder, and where, are the tipping points?
Series of works:
- TRIG
- Weighting and Waiting
- Signal
- Heavy Shadows
- Wade
- The Deceived
TRIG
Observing and questioning what is going on in our world.
Tricks and Truths
Rites and Rights
Incite and Insight
Graft and Grasp
Pooling Ignorance, 2016
Patinated, painted electro-galvanised steel, steel bowl, stainless steel, brass fasteners, 6.5 litres Te Waihora water, rust
530 x 530 x 530 mm
Weighting and Waiting
We measure, and weigh up, and .... hesitate in our responses.
Where is the sense of urgency?
Attach Weight , 2010
Painted steel, brass, wood. Contents: corn, oil, plastic, coin
340 x 300 x 300 mm
SIGNAL
Questioning leadership. What have we done, what is our way forward?
Read the signs – take heed.
On Becoming Misdirected , 2016
Painted, rusted mild steel and corten steel
4000 x 2000 x 2000 mm
Heavy ShadowS
One of five international artists selected for a residency in South Korea focused on sustainability, Bennett constructed a 3.8 metre sculpture, Tipping Point (2012). In response to the elements, a reflective man rotates above an improbable time device. As the sun moves across the sky in Hangaram Square Central, Seoul, the changing shadows cast by the figure over the course of a day on the grid-like paving of the square below are documented.
Tipping Point , 2012
Stainless steel, brass, aluminium
3200 x 2000 x 2000mm
Songchu Art Valley, South Korea
WADE
The Wade series is about exploitation of resources, the impact of industrial waste, and the tipping point at which the damage we cause is irreversible. There is no averting the gaze from the naked truth of theWade sculptures, yet it’s hard to stare at the innocent figures standing in perilously contaminated waters from once pristine lakes.
Pooling Ignorance , 2016
Patinated, painted electro-galvanised steel, steel bowl, stainless steel, brass fasteners, 6.5 litres Te Waihora water, rust
530 x 530 x 530 mm
The Deceived
The Deceived series is about the perilous future we have wrought for generations to come – our grandchildren, their children.
Coracle of the Deceived, 2020
Printed polymer photogrammetry, brass, bamboo, wood, linen thread, stainless steel wire, glass
Total installation: 1860 x 1500 x 1500 mm. Coracle: 650 x 500 x 500 mm
