Canberra Biennial, 2024

‘Catch the sun’  shows a yellow ladder with an inverted translucent staircase above, hovering in the expanse of the lake water. This large scale sculpture uses ideas from Surrealism where dream like imagery transformed everyday things, transporting them into imagined landscapes. The jagged steps of the staircase, draw from the iconic industrial sawtooth roofline used in the mid-nineteenth century to allow more light for factory workers on the floors below before electricity was more common. Towering like a temple in the reflective water, this abstract industrial imaginary responds to our human need to capture the intangible lucid quality of light.