DENESE OATES
DENESE OATES creates striking, asymmetrical sculptures and wall works using aged metal and iconic imagery from the natural environment.
OATES says she is “interested in the vulnerability of nature” and “man’s relationship with the environment”. In this exhibition she has morphed from the biological into the botanical, into a concern for plant structures. OATES uses scale to transform the perception of her partial figurative and often abstracted imagery.
Director of the Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Joe Eisenberg, says...
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