Gizella K Warburton

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​previously shown in

interior space 2017

monochrome 2021

fibre: structure and surface 2022  

unearthed 2023

stillness 2024

cloth and clay 2024

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ten 2026

        

‘traversing ground’

 

For some time I have been making vessel forms, both as objects within themselves; exploring inner spaces in relation to outer skins, and as three dimensional drawings; where open interwoven and knotted forms hold a dialogue with both the fixed planes close by and the linear shadows they cast. Some of these sculptural vessels have emerged as simple bowls where others have become more anthropomorphic and totemic in form. 

Their making involves a series of ritual processes; wrapping, binding, layering, piercing, knotting, suturing and burning. Their forms are determined by a fragile and tenuous combination of elements; breath, tension, balance and materiality. The burnishing, staining, abrading, shadowing and marking of surfaces continues the dialogue I quietly have with each piece, and that which it has in relation to others within a series.

 

Over the years a ‘cypher’ has emerged within my work; an instinctive and subliminal language of expression, and of existence, reflecting the weaving of my life. This sense of a ‘crossing place’ is a thread which, at particular moments, has felt profoundly resonant: a ‘cruci’ that holds layered meanings...a warp and a weft...a suture to repair a wound...an ancient figurative human mark. This symbol is, for me, about ‘being’. 

‘ as I weave and wrap, the paths I have chosen...the spaces I have passed through...those I have encountered... emotions I have felt...all leave traces that are woven into the layers and coils of the work... leaving the strata and resonance of being within.... and ever the quiet incantation of the fibre.’

          

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