Architecture becomes set in stone
Joe Sheehan’s collection, Real Estate, is made up of 10 floor-based works.
Of his inspiration for the work, Sheehan says, “I’ve always been attracted to blue-collar buildings: old workshops, dilapidated barns, suburban State Houses.”
Sheehan’s work is exhibiting at the Tim Melville gallery in Grey Lynn until 12 October 2019.
The collection is a development of Sheehan’s earlier Nirvana collection.
The works are carved mainly from Basalt and Argillite stone.
New Zealand artist Joe Sheehan is no stranger to large stone carvings, but his latest collection, Real Estate, has a distinct architectural slant. Sheehan is exhibiting these 10 new sculptures at the Tim Melville Gallery in Grey Lynn until 12 October 2019.
“I’ve always been attracted to blue-collar buildings: old workshops, dilapidated barns, suburban State Houses. I like humble structures that are worn in an interesting way; it’s the way that they sit on, or in, the land that pulls me in. With these new works I wanted somehow to carve those fleeting memories and to place the viewer where I stood,” Sheehan says.
The pieces are floor-based works, carved from mainly Basalt and Argillite, which the artist sourced from an abandoned quarry in the South Island’s Greenhills.
