1991
clothing, acrylic resin, steel, silk flowers
truss: 300 x 50 cms; sphere: 300 cm diameter
installation view at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1991
1983
timber, steel, wax
230 x 60 x 260 cms“The gate is a portrait of man in the eighties. It can also be seen as a self-portrait. The figure is clothd in a medieval way to reinforce a feeling of austerity and “New Dark Ages”. The figure stands in a state of near catatonia. All emotions have been turned inwards – not in meditation but as a form of protection and fear. The man stands in an archway, poised on the brink…”
Richard Goodwin, artists’s statement