By Dongyun Kwon
Now in its third time, YAVA Gallery and Arts Hub launched its small sculpture exhibition in association with Yering Station on Thursday 31 October once more.
INterior24 is exhibiting artworks from this year’s Yarra Valley Arts | Yering Station Sculpture Exhibition and Awards finalists and Yarra Valley Arts member artists.
The annual exhibition aims to allow visitors to experience these works in a more intimate setting, notice the small details, consider craftsmanship and imagine how the sculptors have used various materials to produce each piece.
Healesville-based artist Mim Kocher, who has participated in all three INterior exhibitions, put on her polycarbonate sphere artwork Ocean Love.
She said she recycled the old street light.
“I spray-painted it, then I used colourful paints and pens to do fish. I did a lot of research on types of fish I would love to do,” Kocher said.
“I thought ‘Will I have a person fishing, catching these beautiful fish?’ and then I thought ‘No. I’ll just have someone on a yacht, reading a book about fish and learning about fish.’
“The ocean has always captivated me with its beauty, mystery and the way waves come in and out.”
32 sculptures are on display now at the exhibition.
Unlike Kocher, this is the first time for Peter Revelman, a Croydon-based artist, to be part of INterior.
The artist said he started with the idea of how to give strength to fragile blocks for his sculpture Structurally Sound.
“The medium I used is glass. It’s only six mm thick. You have to buy special glass to colour it,” Revelman said.
“I built the clear layer first, then I put the colours on top and I made sure that it locks all of this up so that it is strong enough.”
The exhibition will be open until Sunday 24 November.
