“Mellick’s vessels suggest two complementary metaphysical journeys. The egg raft is carried passively with its hidden cargo incubating within an egg form, an ancient symbol of the cosmos, while the bird-boat is carried along by the nature of the invisible cargo upon a trajectory sensed and directed by an inward searching antenna. Mellick seeks images which absorb distant horizons within the human refusing any sense of the remote ideal.”
– Anthony Bond, Senior curator Australian and European Art, Art Gallery of NSW
About
Ross Mellick is a distinctive figure in the Australian art scene, known for a practice that bridges the gap between the scientific and the symbolic. Uniquely, he is also a highly accomplished neurologist, a background that deeply informs his sculptural and installation work.