Robert Hague with Monument at Newport studio, pre-installation. “That’s the problem with being 6’7″ and 128 kg, I make everything look small.”
This is the second instalment this week of sculptor and print-maker, Robert Hague‘s prolific body of work I’ve had the privilege of viewing first-hand in-situ, both at studio and installation.
The customised, self-built studio space is insane. Aside from all the usual stuff one expects to see, Robert’s personality is stamped into every square inch. After a brief chat about the studio’s creation and evolution, Robert invites me to snap some pics of a soon to be installed Monument short-listed amidst luminary company for the 2013 Montalto Sculpture Prize, in Red Hill, home to many of Victoria’s best wineries.
Montalto Vineyard & Olive Grove, 33 Shoreham Rd, Red Hill South is a family owned and operated 60-acre estate, offering a journey of wine, olive oil, Chefs’ Hat restaurant, kitchen gardens and orchards, sculpture and wetlands.
Right: 2012 Montalto Sculpture Prize Winner Christabel Wigley ‘Fingers Crossed’.
Monument. 2012, marine grade stainless steel, 270 x 135 x 122cm, powdered plaster & the choral music of Tallis (1505-1585)
“Why do we choose the monuments we do? Assuming a passive and retracted pose, hand cupped, an excavator form emerges from a reductive abstraction…This is a new monument, one that questions why we honour the things we do.” Robert Hague 2013.
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