A pair of individuals. Sculpture. Stonemasonry. Lapidary. Stainless Steel work. Slow and exacting production process. These vases seek to evoke, via form, material and function, a strong sense of the Australian continent. The vases demonstrate multi-dimensional inlays (solid stone into solid stone) of feature stone - Chrysoprase (a rare & beautiful Australian green stone) - worked into the «host stone» Helidon sandstone; a beautifully coloured fine grain sandstone from Queensland.
Chrysoprase, Marlborough, Queensland. Tertiary Period (2 - 65 million years). Sandstone (white) Haidon, Queensland. Triassic Period (200 - 245 million years). Water vessel Stainless Steel.