Robyn Bauer
Recent Sculpture
This new series of ceramic sculpture is entitled
"The Outback Strikes Back"
We are Australians in the world and there is an ambiguity about where out real roots are.
This series of sculptures explores the concept of spiritual dislocation. The situation of being physically and emotionally in one place and spiritually and historically in another, concerns many Australians. Robyn's usual preoccupation with the symbolism of the bird is still explored, but kangaroos, trees and castles are also introduced.
There is a transposition and displacement that has taken place over several generations of migration and travel between Australia and Europe and these new sculptures investigate aspects of this phenomenon.
"That young country-cultural desert stuff gets very old. Australia happens to have the longest continuous artistic tradition in the world. Aboriginal people making sophisticated art on the walls of their dwellings thirty thousand years before the people in Lascaux chewed off the end of their first paintbrish...
Aistralians' roots run very deep and wide. That gives us a stake in all the world's cultural heritage."
(Geraldine Brooks, People of the Book p 25)
Images that follow are only of work still available in the gallery
For a full viewing of the series go to
Robyn Bauer, Costume, ceramic 22cm high
Robyn Bauer, Bird of Troy, ceramic, 43cm high
Robyn Bauer, Garden Bust with Birds, ceramic, 48cm high
Robyn Bauer, Garedn Bust with Castle, ceramic, 67cm high
Robyn Bauer, Under this Tree, ceramic, 52cm high
All other works have found wonderful new homes in client's homes and gardens