Boot Scootin' Venus
white stoneware clay, clear glaze, fired to 1100°C, overglaze gold lustre, enamels, semi-precious stones, costume jewellery. 50 cm tall x 30 cm deep x 20 cm wide The archetype Venus – the Woman – here portrayed as an American western bordello queen, saloon seductress, seducer and femme fatale. She is also a sister and guide, feminist and ‘arch-defender of her gender’. Venus is feisty, fruity, frivolous, fulsome and fights like hell. This portrayal is an exercise in describing women to other women, a kind of exultation of what it is to be ‘us’.
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Sally Hook
Cherbourg Marjorette
white clay, terracotta, clear flat glaze fired to 1100°C
70 cm tall
Memories of marching groups, white boots, red or blue satin jackets, silver or white epaulettes. Childhood wonder at these resplendent girls, hometown show days, bronco busters, sideshow alleys, a fistful of coins.
- And indigenous success, marching across 60s Australia.
Sally Hook
Forester
multiple clay types, oxides, glaze, fired to 1100 degrees C
70 cm tall
It is our privilege to experience the wilds still existing along the eastern coast of Australia, within forests holding tenuously when left alone
Identifying with the place where I live, the hooting of owls could be the most poignant of night sounds that I will protect with all in my power.
Sally Hook
En Famille
Hand built forms using white earthenware clay.
Fumed with oxides, salts and mounted on wood.
29 cm tall