When you strip everything away, it’s just you looking out (2025)

Concrete, steel, paint.

'When you strip everything away, it's just you looking out' responds site-specifically to Lorne’s foreshore, as part of The Lorne Sculpture Biennale ‘Strata’, drawing intersections between the geology, remnant infrastructure and industrial and cultural debris found along Lorne's ocean fringe. The sculptures reflect on the site as an in-between or peripheral zone, where forgotten fragments have been left to accumulate and merge, slipping between contexts and forming incidental, tangential dialogues across form and materiality. Drawing inspiration from the concave and convex spherical geological formations unique to the coast, particularly around Artillery Rocks, the sculptures reflect on presence and absence and the imprint that forms and materialities leave on one another. Spaced intermittently along the embankments, the sculptures ambiguously reconstruct washed up polystyrene debris, shipping buoys, abandoned trash, rocks and forgotten infrastructure as concrete and steel minimalist ruins, creating moments of curiosity and contemplation that consider the overlapping histories of the site and of site-specificity.

CATALOGUE, SIMON LAWRIE