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A Complicated State of Being
by Simon Rigg
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Simon Rigg

Carving stone has a magic process to me. It can be transformed from a hard, rough, jagged texture to something soft, flexible, and elegant. As a medium, I am passionate by the inherent surprises I find when cutting and polishing marble: the color change, the oily like skin touch, the crystal clarity, and the sharpening of its veins. Combining this process with the experience of the cold feel of steel tools is physically exhausting, but there is an overwhelming sense of oneness, allowing me a deeper exploration into the work.

Since the making of a marble sculpture is a process of removal and discovery, I enjoy the discipline and excitement at the very beginning of a work. Once you start eliminating material there is no turning back.

As a central process of uncovering and testing the boundaries of marble, I started combining other materials. With these different materials I was testing the belief that marble is perceived as something hard and enduring.

As I wanted to shift the strength and dominance of marble, I started a series called Enclosures, “Nesthouse”, where frameworks made from ribs of marble are wrapped and bound in strands of rattan. Within the enclosed section, there is a compact selection of smooth beach and river rocks with intact eggshells.

The ingredients were finely and intimately bound together with wax thread. If you were to cut the thread in any one place, the sculpture would entirely fall apart.

All materials will progressively behave in different ways under stress. In that way, they are no different from us. It’s at the final breaking point when you make a significant discover, a new friendship with the material. It’s then that a new conversation begins.

With my new series “A Complicated State of Being,” I am experimenting in unorthodox ways to construct and present completed cut sections of marble that embellish a more malleable form. In this process it is my intent to stay well outside of the safety zone in what is visually expected from marble. This is the only way to discover not just how much I can extract from the material, but also what I can extract from myself. The latter can make this a much harder process than working with marble.


Curriculum vitae



Commissions

2007                  Waves – Hage Engineering New York NY

2000                  Guardians – Crown Casino, Yarra Promenade – Melbourne, Australia

1995                  Babylon – 101 Collins Street – Melbourne, Australia

1996                  Eclipse – Victoria, Australia

1996                  Celebration – Victorian College of the Arts, School of Dance, Australia

1996                  Four Seasons Ballet – Victorian College of the Arts, Malthouse Theatre – Melbourne, Australia

1995                  Voices – Australian Council for Women – UN Conference on Women, Beijing, China

1991                  Cosmos – 101 Collins Street – Melbourne, Australia

1990                  Hanging Rock – Central Victoria, Australia

1989                  Water Sculpture – Burnley Horticultural College – Melbourne, Australia



Group Exhibitions


2012                 NEXT Best Art Center, Youngstown, OH USA

2012                 Open The Window, NEXT Best Art Center, Youngstown OH USA

2007                 Fragile Feather to Stone – Culture Center – New York, USA

2007                 The Only Constant – Anita Traverso Gallery – Melbourne, Australia



Open Studios at EFA New York, New York


2006                 Open Studio – Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts – New York, USA

2005                 Open Studio – Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts – New York, USA

2004                 Open Studio – Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts – New York, USA

2003                 Open Studio – Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts – New York, USA

2002                 Open Studio – Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts – New York, USA

2001                 Open Studio – Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts – New York, USA

1999                 Mechanics – Pacifico Fine Arts Gallery – New York, USA

1996                 At Heidelberg Three – Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital Installation

1996                 Re-View ’96 – Gallery 101 – Melbourne, Australia

1994                 Sculptors’ Association of Victoria – Melbourne, Australia

1983                 Drawings & Sculpture – Young Originals Gallery – Melbourne, Australia

1976                 Paintings – Originals Gallery – Melbourne, Australia



Solo Exhibitions

1996                 Recent Sculpture – Gallery 101 – Melbourne, Australia



Artist in residence and works with other artists

1997                 Herring Island Environmental Sculpture Park Melbourne, Australia

                         Assistant to Andy Goldsworthy

1997                 Artist in Residence – Northcote Potteries – Melbourne, Australia
                         Artist in Residence – Henderson’s Marble and Granite – Melbourne, Australia

1996                 Artist in Residence – Parks Victoria, Longridge National Park – Victoria, Australia



Grants

2003                 Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York USA



Collections

Crown Casino, Melbourne Australia

Parks Victoria, Victoria Australia

101 Collins Street, Melbourne Australia

Private collections Australia and USA









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