“In Ross Mellick’s sculptural works the materials used are so integral a part of the concept that his own role (in greater measure than is usually the case) is that of an assistant at the birth of the work of art.

The life-force inherent in these natural irreducible materials, so deeply and durably intertwined with the earliest consciousness and culture of humankind that they appear to be aspects of the collective unconscious itself, has found a way into the deeper reaches of the conscious mind where the universal nature of their properties has been apprehended and that by juxtaposing them in fresh ways he has been able to draw out their significance so that it is apprehended to others at a conscious level.”