Helen Moriarty
Bristle worm eater
About the artist
Helen Moriarty is a recent graduate from Queensland College of Art, majoring in Jewellery and Small Objects, earning her a Batchelor of Fine Art from Griffith University. She has actively participated exhibiting her work since beginning her fine art studies, and has participated in group shows here in Australia, the United States, and Hong Kong, as well as online exhibitions. Helen is currently using the textures, colours and chemistry of vitreous enamels on 3D metal shapes in the exploration of the landscape and our relationship as humans with landscape.
Helen Moriarty is a recent graduate from Queensland College of Art, majoring in Jewellery and Small Objects, earning her a Batchelor of Fine Art from Griffith University. She has actively participated exhibiting her work since beginning her fine art studies, and has participated in group shows here in Australia, the United States, and Hong Kong, as well as online exhibitions. Helen is currently using the textures, colours and chemistry of vitreous enamels on 3D metal shapes in the exploration of the landscape and our relationship as humans with landscape.
Artwork blurb
Future fantasy and past memories. Helen’s practise is concerned with the beauty of the natural world, how this touches us as sentient beings, and our effect as humans on the natural world. In the future the Great Barrier Reef will only exist as fantasy or memory. Now it is under constant threat from the runoff from agricultural erosion in the south and the warming of the Coral Sea in the North. Helen has drawn on past memories of diving into the fantastical world of the reef, to create these pieces. She has used memories of the beauty and the diversity of life, and the form, and the colours, to imagine fantasy fish and corals which might evolve to live in the future in the higher temperatures of the Coral Sea.These pieces follow a series of experiments using copper gauze as a light weight and flexible medium for vitreous enamel, this has allowed flexible shapes and interesting textures.
Future fantasy and past memories. Helen’s practise is concerned with the beauty of the natural world, how this touches us as sentient beings, and our effect as humans on the natural world. In the future the Great Barrier Reef will only exist as fantasy or memory. Now it is under constant threat from the runoff from agricultural erosion in the south and the warming of the Coral Sea in the North. Helen has drawn on past memories of diving into the fantastical world of the reef, to create these pieces. She has used memories of the beauty and the diversity of life, and the form, and the colours, to imagine fantasy fish and corals which might evolve to live in the future in the higher temperatures of the Coral Sea.These pieces follow a series of experiments using copper gauze as a light weight and flexible medium for vitreous enamel, this has allowed flexible shapes and interesting textures.
Image by Caroline Arlett Photography