The Shape of Being and Becoming traces eleven years of sculptural practice, circling
back to its origin - a mother carrying a child on her shoulders. This gesture, revisited in
a new work, becomes both anchor and compass: a symbol of enduring weight, care,
and transformation.
Between these two carvings unfold figures in transition - guardians, a windswept
head, a winged child - and works from the Crossing the Rubicon series, evoking mythic
thresholds and irreversible change.
Threaded throughout are artefacts of reflection - abacus forms, an hourglass - acting as metaphysical tools for marking time, memory, and inner reckoning.
Together, these works form a constellation of becoming: a slow unfolding where wood
holds memory, labour, and the shifting shape of being

Image: Wanda Gillespie: Boy with Wings, Kahikatea, punga root wings 2019

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