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Robert Waghorn
the Garden Path
Power Grid
Painted wood & ceramics, 2007
72 x 46 x 20cm
Robert was born in 1957 in Ballarat, Victoria, graduating with a
Diploma of Fine Art 1984. In 1985 he travelled and studied art
throughout Europe, the United Kingdom and Egypt, returning to
complete a Graduate Diploma in 1986. Since 1987 he has completed
fifteen solo exhibitions and participated in over thirty-six group shows.
Originally trained as a painter, he now combines these skills with his
whimsical sculptured forms and over the past few years his works have
been selected for the Yering Station Sculpture Exhibition, the Woollahra
Small Sculpture Prize and the Toorak Village Festival of Sculpture. In
2007 he was the winner of the Moreland Sculpture Prize and his works
are represented in collections throughout Australia, Japan, Britain,
Austria, Sweden and Korea.
T his is part of a series
of works that explore
current topics of discussion
from everyday life, current
affairs and the news.
Interest rate rises,
environmental concerns
and energy shortages have
resulted in loss of the
Australian dream. Once
part of our culture to own
our own homes, this has
become increasingly
difficult for the average
wage earner to a point
where it is swiftly
becoming a thing of the
past. This work explores
notions of personal,
physical and metaphysical
power, empowerment and
disempowerment. Power to
the people, right on.
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