Liam Sinha

Artist statement

Crux. Clay. Paper. Bark. (Melaleuca feralisargilla) is an extension of my eco-sensitive expanded sculpture practice, which aims to recentre the more-than-human. I envisioned this piece as the backdrop for a sculpture that used this feral clay, which I dug at home on Dharug country, as a plinth. Experimenting further, I drew and then painted with clay-covered hands onto cardboard paper hanging from a wall, as if tracing up and down bark of a large tree trunk. The work's name is fictional and derived from the binomial nomenclature for our native paperbarks and means ‘feral clay paperbark’. Scavenged metal elements were used to form the Southern Cross.