Mapping memory: Lorne Point theolithic, 2021-22

SIMON BUTTONSHAW & PHILOMENA MANIFOLD

Lorne Sculpture Biennale 2022

Mapping memory: Lorne Point Theolithic

Black Senellier oil stick on canvas, lashed onto metal frames crafted by David Graham.

Canvas dimensions: 1380cm W x 1720cm H

This work consists of 22 individual pieces.

Artist’s statement

This work is a record and memory of a site-specific encounter between the artists and the timeless presence of the Point. In this meeting, the Point is a collaborator and sculptor.

Through contacting form, the geological memory and imprints of deep time are felt and drawn. A lifting up occurs in which the geological moments come into focus, their form outlined, their dynamic presence made tangible.

Since meeting on the Point, Simon and Philomena’s shared interest in geological process and their felt sense of place have woven together through conversation and practice. Each mark is made from a personal, felt, choice that reaches into the timeless and touches Gondwana. The work is immersive, non-figurative, amorphic and enigmatic, as is memory itself.

“These marks made on rock speak to a process that opens a door to the very heart of why we wish to make a mark. Coming into contact or face to face with the mystery of why” — Simon Buttonshaw