Heavy Shadows

Overview

If you’ve been down Crummer road this week, you may have spotted a large red figure hovering outside the Whitespace gallery. The new courtyard installation, Overview, is a feature work in Graham Bennett’s latest exhibition, Heavy Shadows.

The Heavy Shadows series emerged from a piece Bennett completed for the International Sculpture Festa in 2012. The 3.8m high work Tipping Point was installed outside Hangaram Art Museum in Seoul. The images Bennett made of the sculpture’s shadow as it morphed and moved across the courtyard during the day were the basis for the Heavy Shadows exhibition.

After a long period of working with architectural and conceptual forms, Heavy Shadows sees a return of the figure to Bennett’s work. Through his work Bennett demonstrates his concern for the environment and challenges us to consider what balance means in our lives. He is interested in conversations around the existence of Global Warming and the idea that the world is currently in its ‘last 5 minutes’ of time.

Bennett has been exhibiting for over 30 years and the refinement of his craft is evident in his new thought-provoking and curious exhibition, Heavy Shadows.

You can see more of Graham Bennett at Sculpture on the Gulf where his work Overview Overlook Oversee, a sister piece to Tipping Point, is on currently on display.