Angela McHarrie: Experimental Sculpture

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My work is primarily an investigation of visual cognition, playing with how we make sense of what we see. This has taken the form of precariously balanced, ‘impossible’ structures, perceptual puzzles and more recently coded systems. As a result, the works often operate in the space between two and three dimensions and therefore range across sculpture, painting and installation.

This playfulness and experimental nature is also present in her most recent show at Perth Galleries titled Experiment in Production (bottom 4 photos), which ended this past weekend. This work explores genetic modification and our world of production, from research and development to the desired end product.

Images courtesy Harrison Galleries and Perth Galleries.

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