HIP HIP DECAY HAVANA THE FOX SCULPTURE

Suzanne McRae graduated from the University of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia in 1996 with a Bachelor of Arts Ceramics. Over the next decade she moved into costume and fashion. She has now returned to her beginnings in sculpture, textiles and ceramics, to create pieces which are finding a place in galleries and the homes of people who are transfixed by their character and charm. 

The sentimentality and haunting nature of memory is the world she is drawn to. Beautiful things now decrepit, once cherished objects now paused in a parallel place, still existing but really inhabiting a long gone life.

Suzanne's animals are the anthropomorphic bridge between human and creature, the past and present, and truth or dream. A melancholic yet enticing longing for ornaments our past generations loved, but which seem strange and awkward now, and have miraculously outlived their owners.

The stained and moth eaten fabrics, cracks and threads, shining eyes, all conglomerate to remind us of great grandparents time capsule dining rooms and Victorian grace now disintegrated.

HAVANA is a calm fox in cotton print antique fur and antique French trims.

A one of a kind piece, Havana is mounted on wood and constructed with staining and ageing processes. Height - 72cm

• Clay
• Calico
• Antique Fur
  
• Wire
• Velvet Ribbon
• Wood
• Coffeestain
• Cotton Print
• Vintage Buttons