A different red, a different black

Contemporary: Warwick Freeman

Stone objects, some suspended from thread, are laid out as if just unearthed from an archaeological dig. The forms seem familiar: screwdriver handles, Victorian-style bar brooches … But look again. Is the pendant with serrated edges the top of a tissue box, or a Pacific breastplate?

Warwick Freeman, one of the original Bone Stone Shell artists, has continued to explore the way commonplace things can stir our ‘deep memory’: ‘My found objects usually come from banal sources, but I’m listening for an earlier echo.’ For him, the act of carving is also a ‘finding’ – an uncovering of a shape hidden in stone. ‘Carve and ye shall find – that’s my dictate.’