I Wash My Steps in Butter

Overview

A wax foot hanging from thin nylon threads drags itself across the iron fillings scattered on the floor, similar to a finger hypnotically drifting across a ouija board. This dismembered foot forms a part of a larger exhibition called I Wash My Steps In Butter by artist Gail Hockings. 

With an Opunake pedigree, but trained in visual arts at the University of South Australia and Curtin University (finishing up her formal training in 2015), the mysterious, newfangled Gail Hockings' sculptural pieces have already found themselves nestled into the private collections across the globe - including Saudi Arabia, Australia and England.

I Wash My Steps In Butter, explains Hockings, was her means of exploring and destabilising her sense of place and self. "Through a sculptural, spatial art practice there is a potentially perilous excavation of self buried within the interior emotional terrain. My identity is rendered unstable due to leading a nomadic lifestyle."