The Three of Us, an exhibition with Carol Endean Little, sculptor; Karin Smith, printmaker and myself, opens on 19th November at The Little Gallery in George Street, Bathurst.
Carol can be seen below in her beautiful backyard studio chipping away at a large block of coralline limestone. In February, Carol attended the National Limestone Sculpture Symposium in Mt Gambier, South Australia. Sculptors from all around Australia worked with blocks on site, as the public walked in and around each piece as it was being created, engaging with the artist. No easy task transporting the block back to Bathurst.
Carol has found working with the rock intriguing, as she keeps coming across fossilised shells. A 300m deep belt of coral reef extends below Mt Gambier. Traditionally limestone was cut from here into building blocks called ashlars, and used in the 1800's and 1900's to construct the cities of South Eastern Australia.
Describing her work The Seer, Carol says it is a metaphor for the continuum of time. All life came out of the ancient seas. The past creates the present; the present will create the future. The Seer has grown out of an ancient sea, yet it looks to the future with eyes closed. Who can really tell what the future holds?
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