Sculptures
Bird Boat & Egg Raft
Exhibited as a part of 3 installations : Noelene Lucas, Ross Mellick, Robert Owen from 27 April – 10 June 1991 at the Art Gallery of NSW
Graeme Surgeon, Artbank director, writes:
“Ross Mellick’s work returns Australian sculpture to the symbolic in contrast with the intellectual and conceptual work of the ‘70s.”
In the Studio
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Bird Boat showing cavity
Egg Raft construction
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Bird Boat Bow Sprit
Egg Raft detail
reception
This letter was written by a visitor to the gallery. Only one page survived and the author is a “mystery”. Contact was attempted some years after the only remaining page was found in the artist’s studio.
Dear Ross,
Feels weird to nestle down in such a soft cavity behind the retracted foreskin. Not comfortable this hemaphrodite – wincing, shrinking. But from outside – so lovely! The shape perfect! Angels reading down, up, just right! And I am no longer troubled by the lopsided raft. It is as it must be… The egg may need to be set down after its passage. The primordial destiny of being female is to affect this anchoring, heedless of its lopsiding burden. But the hair oh the hair sends a current into the oesophagus above the achalasia below the dysphagia. Primeval primordial ambivalence – such revulsion in its attraction! – Manly Vale 2093
Song of the Sea Raft
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