Cloud on a Hill

Michael Francis Cartwright

2015

bronze sculpture
edition of 6
35.5 x 28 x 10 cm

This sculpture is play. A joyous piece expressing the never ending formation and movement and ethereal change of clouds in the sky. Near our home in Italy we have a beautiful mountain top called Prato Fiorito. It is a bald mountain of just grasses and flowers. Ancient people have always come here. We often go there and watch the clouds slip over its peak and slide down towards the valleys below. I call it the cloud factory. This sculpture is the joyful play of our minds as we cloud watch.

 

The One who loves Itself

Michael Francis Cartwright

bronze

edition of 8

46 x 22 x 25 cm

Wrapped in its reflected surroundings, ‘The One Who Loves Itself’ is at peace with its knowledge and grandness of self.

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Mask Figure, bronze

Michael Francis Cartwright

2003

bronze, cast from the original marble

edition of 8

84 x 36 x 33 cm

 

Cartwright’s ‘Mask Figure’ is greatly inspired from African art but made more so because of his own bird forms of owls and emus with long legs. There is something about the emphasis on the large heads and the emerging legs that brought him to read the mask forms in African art into this work. Generally the mask is a constant in Cartwright’s work over his career.

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Mask figure, marble

Michael Francis Cartwright

2003

Marble

84 x 36 x 33 cm

 

 

Harvest

Shona Nunan

2016

bronze
edition 1 of 6

191 x 43 x 18

‘Harvest’ comes from Nunan’s Woman series representing the ‘earth mother’ and her cycles. These Harvest figures are symbolic women forms  balancing trays or vessels on their heads holding the gifts or the burdens of life,  according to the ‘season’.

This ‘Harvest’ woman carries a vessel and a shield that is inscribed with the spiral of life’s journey. She represents the protector of the earth journey.

Life

Shona Nunan

2018

bronze

edition 1 of 3

210 x 55 x 38 cm

‘Life’ with her spiralling breasts and stomach is the feminine principle of the cycles of life, of fertility, abundance, of infinite growth in an infinite universe. This spiralling form arrived spontaneously years earlier in one of Nunan’s smaller works and like many works that have to evolve over time, this larger work was realised only recently when it was included in the ‘Journey’s exhibition at Australia House in 2018. The woman form and its archetypal symbolism has been a developing theme in Nunan’s work over the past 40 years.

 

Torso

Shona Nunan

2010

bronze edition 4 of 8

edition , In collection of Hamilton Regional Gallery, Victoria, Australia

marble edition sold

48.5 x 62 x 9 cm

Nunan’s ’Torso’ with its cross like form, has the power of understated simplicity and is the essence of Woman. Open and embracing, the arms wide, there is enormous strength in the dual equal forms of the body meeting vertically with the horizontal arms, a sense of ‘I am’ and an uncompromising message of a woman’s mark in life . 

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New Bird Form

Michael Francis Cartwright

2021

bronze

edition of 8

74 x 75 x 52 cm (including base)

 

African Head

Shona Nunan

1984

bronze edition of 8 (second state)

76 x 25 x 14 cm

 

‘African Head’ is one of the pieces I created in my studio in Ortonovo in Italy in 1984, in the hills above Carrara.  I was twenty four, a new mother, not long out of college, and this was my declaration to the world that I was an artist. Going to Italy to create in the mountains of Michaelangelo became one of the first great commitments of my life. I had a studio in the upstairs room of the tiny house we rented, our baby went to creche and Michael carved marble in Carrara. I was inspired by amazing trips to Florence and Pisa. On one of our trips we saw an African exhibition where a beautiful Nigerian head influenced this sculpture. I loved the carved dots in the head to represent hair, the serene beauty, simplicity and elegance. The original of this sculpture in plaster was too fragile to mould as I wanted to retain it in its original form. So I did a second state of this sculpture years later in response to enquiries made of it.

Warrior Shield

Shona Nunan

2021

bronze
edition 2 of 3
244 x 74 x 46 cm

edition 2 of 3 to be cast

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