System Collapse, 2016, Lionel Bawden
Coloured Staedtler pencils, epoxy, acrylic lacquer
Provenance: Mossgreen, Melbourne.
Lionel Bawden was born in Auburn, NSW in 1974 and currently lives and works in Northern NSW. He works in sculpture, performance, installation and painting. His core sculptural medium utilises hexagonal coloured pencils as materials which are then reconfigured and carved into their final form. Bawden has exhibited widely both within Australia and internationally. His work is held in major public and private collections including the Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Newcastle Region Gallery, Newcastle, NSW, Artbank, and Macquarie Bank collection (1).
Bawden’s use of Staedler pencils fused together and carved into this amorphous object transports the everyday source material beyond the known and commonplace. The rich colour and geometry of the materials explores the transformation of common items into something more, and the repetition of the physical world. (2)