atelier mondial, basel, switzerland, 2023
I was co-winner, with Peter Dailey, of the Sculpture@Bathers Scholarship for our collaborative work Mutable Column exhibited in Sculpture at Bathers Beach 2020. We are undertaking this residency in May 2023 and I will post updates to this page to document my work.
Mutable Column | Peter Dailey and Beverley Iles | 2020 | Corten steel, concrete, ceramic components | 335 cm x 30cm x 30 cm
Basel has one of the world’s oldest botanical gardens, established in the 1500’s, a pharmaceutical industry and a seed bank for endangered plants. Working with ideas of botanical collections, economic botany and botanical colonialism, the works in progress visually allude to hermaphroditic plant reproduction, and tease out concepts of emptiness, fertility, extinction and resilience.
work in progress | 2023 | copper mesh, zip, thread | 14 x 14 x 20 cm
work in progress 2 | 2023 | copper mesh, thread, fibre | 15 x 15 x 45 cm.
work in progress 3 | 2023 | copper mesh, thread, zip | 15 x 15 x 29 cm.
