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Inside Out, Object Gallery, Sydney What is left Brigitte Jurack has exhibited internationally and is
co-founder of acclaimed artists group Foreign Investment. After studying in
Dusseldorf’s Kunstakademie, Jurack moved to the United Kingdom. She is currently
senior lecturer at Manchester School of Art. She has received awards from the
Henry Moore Foundation, European Ceramic Work Centre and the Irish Museum of
Modern Art. In what is left the world of things that are irrefutably
and indisputably a part of material culture are quite literally squashed
together and aggressively molded with material that seems to belong to the
manual sculpture practice of a distant past. Consumables, all vying for shelf
space in the public imagination, are as much a source of inspiration as the
inherent terms of modern sculpture and pre-20th century sculpture (Johanna
Drucker, Sweet Dreams, Chicago, 2006, pp.157). what is left thus embodies a
free flow of respect for the manual labour that brought into existence the
throw away plastic toy: the unnamed person, who modeled the master deer and
kangaroo is celebrated alongside the artists memory of imaginative play and
the deeply human leap of faith that breathes life into dead matter through
ceremony, ritual, adoration, appreciation and play. |
