Artentwine 2012
Neil Papworth has a bachelor of visual arts from the University of Tasmania 1986. His first stone carvings were in sandstone, marble and basalt while still a student.
Soon his flirtation with Tasmania serpentine started. Six years ago a chance discovery led to an outcrop of serpentine disturbed by machinery used to make a fire break in a forestry coup on logging roads just outside Beaconsfield.
As he works the rocks start to reveal what lay hidden beneath the outer ochre coloured, oxidized layer, and the final shape of each sculpture is slowly revealed. The form of the final piece of artwork is dictated by the rock itself and what is revealed as the rock is worked. These rocks are composed organic matter, time and great pressure. Their anthropomorphic transformation from rubble lying by the side of the road to a piece of sculpture mimics the metamorphosis that was responsible for their creation, deep below the earths surface 550 million years ago.
Neil Papworth
Fluid sculptures capturing the essence of the landscape
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