Nuptial Nectar
SUSAN MCARTHUR, 2022
Aluminium cans, millinery wire, copper wire.
54 x 45 x 45 cm.
About the artwork…
Amidst a flourish of flower and a busy buzzing of bee, I suddenly spy a creature unbeknown to me. Balanced on a daisy waving in the wind, a beautiful orange glow beneath translucent wing. A long gangly leg tentatively grips while into a pool of nectar a probing proboscis dips. Initial thoughts of a stinging barb are soon put to rest when I discover an ichneumon wasp, the one without a nest. Her solitary flight to pollinate, her ovipositor to propagate. She is unique to our Isle and as she sups we shall smile.
About the artist…
Susan McArthur has been operating a millinery business in Burnie for 25 years. Whilst undertaking a Master of Contemporary Arts degree at UTAS in 2010, Susan began using metal to inform the hat. In 2011 Burnie Regional Art Gallery held a solo exhibition of her works entitled Capturing the Hat. As a milliner of some 30 years Susan’s creations have been exhibited in boutiques throughout Australia and on race courses around the world. In 2012 her copper wire headpiece, rendered in photography, won the Tasmanian Women’s Art Award Material Girl. In 2016 MONA - Museum of Old and New Art commissioned a hat for the exhibition Hound in the Hunt. In 2018 Susan was invited to create a hat for exhibition in London Hat Week. Currently she has a display of wire works at The Hive Cultural Precinct in Ulverstone. As a wearable form of sculpture this headpiece and stand is designed to; explore the use of materials, evoke movement and light, enhance the beauty of nature and embrace a sense of the exotic.
SUSAN MCARTHUR, 2022
Aluminium cans, millinery wire, copper wire.
54 x 45 x 45 cm.
About the artwork…
Amidst a flourish of flower and a busy buzzing of bee, I suddenly spy a creature unbeknown to me. Balanced on a daisy waving in the wind, a beautiful orange glow beneath translucent wing. A long gangly leg tentatively grips while into a pool of nectar a probing proboscis dips. Initial thoughts of a stinging barb are soon put to rest when I discover an ichneumon wasp, the one without a nest. Her solitary flight to pollinate, her ovipositor to propagate. She is unique to our Isle and as she sups we shall smile.
About the artist…
Susan McArthur has been operating a millinery business in Burnie for 25 years. Whilst undertaking a Master of Contemporary Arts degree at UTAS in 2010, Susan began using metal to inform the hat. In 2011 Burnie Regional Art Gallery held a solo exhibition of her works entitled Capturing the Hat. As a milliner of some 30 years Susan’s creations have been exhibited in boutiques throughout Australia and on race courses around the world. In 2012 her copper wire headpiece, rendered in photography, won the Tasmanian Women’s Art Award Material Girl. In 2016 MONA - Museum of Old and New Art commissioned a hat for the exhibition Hound in the Hunt. In 2018 Susan was invited to create a hat for exhibition in London Hat Week. Currently she has a display of wire works at The Hive Cultural Precinct in Ulverstone. As a wearable form of sculpture this headpiece and stand is designed to; explore the use of materials, evoke movement and light, enhance the beauty of nature and embrace a sense of the exotic.
SUSAN MCARTHUR, 2022
Aluminium cans, millinery wire, copper wire.
54 x 45 x 45 cm.
About the artwork…
Amidst a flourish of flower and a busy buzzing of bee, I suddenly spy a creature unbeknown to me. Balanced on a daisy waving in the wind, a beautiful orange glow beneath translucent wing. A long gangly leg tentatively grips while into a pool of nectar a probing proboscis dips. Initial thoughts of a stinging barb are soon put to rest when I discover an ichneumon wasp, the one without a nest. Her solitary flight to pollinate, her ovipositor to propagate. She is unique to our Isle and as she sups we shall smile.
About the artist…
Susan McArthur has been operating a millinery business in Burnie for 25 years. Whilst undertaking a Master of Contemporary Arts degree at UTAS in 2010, Susan began using metal to inform the hat. In 2011 Burnie Regional Art Gallery held a solo exhibition of her works entitled Capturing the Hat. As a milliner of some 30 years Susan’s creations have been exhibited in boutiques throughout Australia and on race courses around the world. In 2012 her copper wire headpiece, rendered in photography, won the Tasmanian Women’s Art Award Material Girl. In 2016 MONA - Museum of Old and New Art commissioned a hat for the exhibition Hound in the Hunt. In 2018 Susan was invited to create a hat for exhibition in London Hat Week. Currently she has a display of wire works at The Hive Cultural Precinct in Ulverstone. As a wearable form of sculpture this headpiece and stand is designed to; explore the use of materials, evoke movement and light, enhance the beauty of nature and embrace a sense of the exotic.
Sculpture to be collected post-exhibition on November 6 2022 from the Thistle Inn Stable Gallery, Church street, Ross.