Pockets 1 & Pockets 2
Plaster cast discarded pockets & floor sweepings
Approx. 5 x 5 x 5 cm - 10 x 10 x 10 cm
AUD $2, 065 (whole series of 7 parts), $295 each piece
Artwork Statement
Sappho’s Hipbone is an ongoing mixed-media sculptural wall drawing that brings fragments—poetry, anatomy, domestic cloth, thread & debris—into conversation with architectural surfaces. Guided by the Ancient Greek poet Sappho, the work materially explores interweaving personal, feminist and queer philosophical themes & ideas. This iteration, installed in Melbourne’s WTC building, draws from the language of Brutalism. While often critiqued for its severity and patriarchal associations, I have sought alternative commonalities such as the ethic of material honesty to explore tensions and possibilities. The work embodies the idea of a “thick present”—a layered now in which past, present and potential coexist in contradiction and complexity.
Pockets accompanies the piece as a series of plaster and concrete casts created from discarded clothing pockets and floor sweepings. They hold memory and trace while speaking to the gaps in our historical narratives: fossilised fragments of the personal, the unspoken and the gaps in our historical narratives.
Artist Bio
Juliet D. Collins is a Melbourne-based textile and mixed media artist exploring memory, identity, and space. With an MA in Fine Art from the University of Edinburgh and a Graduate Certificate from VCA, her practice blends embroidery, found objects, and feminist and queer theory to create layered, research-driven installations.
