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Libby Bloxham – Assemblage Sculptor
Happily married for over twenty five years, I was a stay at home mum raising two daughters. I came to my arts practice late graduating from university and winning Sculpture by the Sea in 2000, the year I turned forty. I have been working as an artist since then as well as doing some fundraising work to help women of the Illawarra.
My work is primarily assemblage sculpture and is almost always conceptual, an expression of my spiritual understanding and life experiences. I am interested in the idea that all life is interconnected and the notion that nothing exists by itself but only within its relationship to everything and everyone else.
I am interested in the borders between things, the point where one thing becomes another. For example at what point does blue become green or red become orange? At what exact point does the ocean become land? We could then apply this thinking to many other concepts eg: the natural and the man-made or the question of spiritual and physical. I work from the position that everything that exists is part of the one thing, the ‘oneness’ as I call it.
I work almost entirely with waste, recycled, unwanted, second-hand materials because I am concerned about how we treat the rest of the ‘oneness’ (how much we use it up, the damage we do to it and the waste we leave behind) but also because I really enjoy these materials and the sense of a story or life that is already in them.
My work often stems from the materials themselves. I am attracted by shape, colour, texture, the characteristics, function and history of the material and intrigued by the possibilities and potential of such material. I love to give something a completely new purpose other than that for which it was made, a new chapter in its story, changing it from unwanted, sometimes messy waste to something of interest and /or beauty that someone might treasure, a unique new part of the ‘oneness’.
Contact: bitemegraphics(at)gmail.com