Silver Cloud
1995
Red Gum and galvanised steel
350 x 500 x 100 cm
Collection of Deakin University Art Collection, Melbourne Campus
It was one of three major works that I completed at this time made from timbers that I had found on a farm near Moyston in the Grampians. Silver Cloud reflects the move to increasing simplicity in my work around 1995. In Silver Cloud I pared back the work to four main elements and introduced a new sense of volume in the cone-like Steel form on the end of the timber. I worked for a long time for a method to connect visually the timber with the Steel structures. So the organic timber evolves smoothly into the metal cone which is equally organic in form then slowly connects to the more fabricated structure above.
Geoffrey Bartlett, 2006
