(Cambridge)
A child’s first drawing is usually mastering/memorizing ‘human’. In a fine arts world where conceptual art has become convention, I remain compelled by the forces of the figure and the ways humanity impacts. My method is decidedly un-contemporary, choosing to work in traditional processes of sculpture focused primarily on the body human (or its symbol) exploring timeless issues in real world time. I have an ambivalent relationship with humanity and an interest in life’s inherent contradictions: good yet bad, simple yet complex, greedy yet generous, destructive yet creative, free yet trapped – each containing aspects of the other. How does one find resolution in this? Or comfort? So too this paradox portrays itself in traditional forms of sculpture. In art as in life, the human form is simultaneously limited and limitless. It hold within it ineffable potential yet it is grounded by its mortality and materiality. It is imbued with meaning and simultaneously just ‘is’; without need to elaboration, symbolism or intellectual unpacking. Having spent most of my working life as a psychotherapist, my ongoing interest has been to delve the depths of the human psyche. I have had the privilege as well as the burden of witnessing the complexities of experience we each hold within us. I use the human figure – in body or metaphor – as a beginning point to explore issues of relatedness to self, to other, to the world around us, to our history; how we live and understand our place.
THE FARM
Jane Hook (Cambridge)
Bronze, wood and aluminium
60 x 27 x 8 inches
The farm is a way of life. It is how this country began: it is our history. The wood is Manitoba Maple, often considered a scrub wood, good for ‘not much’ and thrown away or used as firewood. We currently live in a throwaway society. We are infinitely small on this great living planet yet use it as our waste bucket. Ecologically trees help sustain life. Rural life sustains urban life and nature sustains us all. This sculpture attempts to reflect better the actuality and grandiosity of it all. $ 1,200
URBAN UPHEAVAL
Jane Hook (Cambridge)
Wood, aluminium, steel and bronze
63 x 22.5 x 8 inches
This is part of the Mother Earth Series: it depicts urban encroachment on rural space. It also speaks to our shift away from the land that has historically sustained us as a world; ‘big’ (business) takes over ‘small’ (farms). Urban Upheaval can be read on many levels. The wood is Manitoba Maple, often considered a scrub wood, good for ‘not much’ and thrown away or used as firewood. We currently live in a throwaway society. We are infinitely small on this great living planet yet use it as our waste bucket. Ecologically trees help sustain life. This sculpture attempts to reflect better the actuality and grandiosity of it all. $1,000
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