Explosive Forming (5)

From the exhibition 2024 Robert Foster Metal Prize

Year: 2024

Materials: Brass, stainless steel, gunpowder residue 

Dimensions: 22.5 x 17.5 x 1.5 cm 

About the Maker: Nicholas Burridge draws upon practice-based research to unpack the complex relationship between industrialization and nature. His work unpacks the term ‘Terraforming’ focusing attention upon the ways that humans are re-engineering the earth and our current geologic epoch the Anthropocene. Many of Burridge’s projects are site specific with multiple experimental outcomes, this has led to him having research residencies at Melbournes Living Museum of the West, Canberra Glassworks, The Quarry and Jacks Magazine a heritage munitions warehouse. In all these instances the aim has been to reveal latent narratives and metaphors that are embedded in materials.