Onespace warmly congratulates artist Carly Scoufos on the completion of her elegant sculptural installation, Fluent, for 160 Macquarie Street, St Lucia, Brisbane. Commissioned by QM Properties and delivered by Onespace, the piece’s fluid sculptural form is hand fabricated in anodised aluminium wire and inspired by the rich history of the site on the Brisbane River (Maiwar).
Scoufos’ work creates a perceptual push and pull between two-dimensional drawing and three-dimensional sculpture. Exploring abstract fleeting moments within natural phenomena, she regularly uses hand-woven industrial wire, as well as pins and yarn to make large-scale, hand-sewn site-specific installations. These processes of weaving and sewing wire sculptures reference traditional textile techniques such as needlework, lacemaking and knitting, in which single strands of fibre are interwoven to create structure and define space. The ‘fibre’ or ‘thread’ used is either fencing or welding wire. Its properties that are rigid, sharp and unforgiving, therefore juxtaposing the femininity of domestic techniques and the ‘handmade’, to the use of industrial materials.
Fluent, titled from the Latin word ‘fluere’ meaning ‘to flow’, takes its inspiration from its proximity to the riverfront, the immediate affinity with water and its connection with the manufacturing of boats and Alvey fishing equipment during the early 1900’s. The river has informed all that has been here before, and with its powerful presence and endless ebb and flow, it will continue to inspire those who reside here into the future.
Onespace’s consultancy work for 160 Macquarie Street also includes two exceptional paintings by Townsville based artist, Clare Jaque Vasquez – Edge of reality, 2024 located in the dining room, and Bag of Tricks, 2024 located in the ground level foyer. The work of Clare Jaque Vasquez is informed by memories and experiences of home on her Gomeroi/Kamilaroi Country.
Her paintings depict figments of black soil, thunderstorms, green flats, and hills overlaid with passages of meticulously sculpted fibres of paint. Growing up with three generations under the one roof on Country for half of her childhood, Jaque Vasquez captures unique memories of matriarchal stories, and the gentle resilience bundled in her grandmother’s bag and basket of the last three generations.
Clare Jaque Vasquez, Bag of Tricks, 2024, Acrylic and impasto on canvas, 200 x 200cm
Clare Jaque Vasquez, Edge of reality, 2024, Acrylic and impasto on canvas, 101 x 101cm
Carly Scoufos, Fluent, 2024, Anodised aluminium wire, dimensions variable
Images: Sam Scoufos. Courtesy of the artists and Onespace.
