Erika Mayer
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My sculptures are the results of an ongoing exploration with my creative medium cast glass. A fascination for the luminous qualities of glass was ignited during a visit to the Australian opal fields. Subsequently I adapted the lost wax casting process to kiln formed glass. During casting glass becomes fluid and solidifies while cooling. Fluidity is caught in a moment and transformed into petrified fluid. With the figurations of the human form I am exploring the embodiment of fluidity and the nature of water. While glass resembles water, my sculptures become carriers of memory and meanings associated with oceanic feelings. The present focus on the journey with my creative medium is situated on the borderline between the exterior outlines of the sculpture and a translucent fluid internal world. Resembling a sensation of something limitless, a feeling of indissoluble connection of belonging to the world as a whole, where all living matter is a sensitive web of mutual receptivity and interconnectedness. Notions of interrelating, transforming, becoming and evolving are interwoven in my ongoing creative process.
Jonathan Thomson in World Sculpture News Spring 2004 said :
Mayer's sculpture forms are volumes of light, floating weightlessly in attitudes of abandon.The transparency of her medium, with its delicate swirls and washes of colours such as occur, when a loaded paint brush is first dipped in a jar of water, results in works that are suggestive both of an instant and an eternity.
EXHIBITIONS
2007 Corporate Art Summer Exhibition Gold Coast Australia
2006 Gaffer Studio Glass Hong Kong
2005 Glass Artist Gallery Sydney Australia
2005 Gaffer Studio Glass Hong Kong
2005 Water Spirit Gallery Noosa Australia
2004 Gaffer Studio Glass Hong Kong
2003 Cape Gallery Byron Bay Australia
2002 Habatat Galleries USA
2000 East Coast Sculpture Show Ballina Australia
1999 East Coast Sculpture Show Ballina Australia
1997 German Embassy Jakarta Indonesia
1996 Cairns Regional Gallery Cairns Australia
LINKS
http://www.gafferstudioglass.com
http://www.habatatgalleries.com
http://www.visualartsnetwork.net.au
http://www.glassartistsgallery.com
http://www.capegallery.com
http://www.waterspirit.com.au
ERIKA MAYER STUDIo
http:// www.erika mayer.com
P.O.Box 431
Byron Bay 2481 NSW
Australia
Ph.: 61 2 66 871878
email: mayerika@optusnet.com.au
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