Silenced Voices

Sound is silenced when the air is removed from a bell jar. This sculpture represents how a bell jar is placed over women’s voices by politicians, police, and the media when we raise our voices for action to address violence against women. It’s a call to shatter the bell jar so voices are no longer silenced – let them soar, unbound, unheard no more. It’s woven using intricate and complex weaving techniques that create repetitive patterns using recycled copper electrical wire – painstakingly unwound from an electricity powerline.

Awarded second prize in the 2024 Urunga Small Sculpture Prize.

Size: 26h x 33w x 16d cms (in total)

Material: Foraged vine, charcoal, recycled electrical copper wire

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