Leanne Mooney has expressed her hope for humanity in this series of seven sculptural works.
Aptly presented by the artist under the topical guise of conflict, ‘Sticks and Stones’ is a provocative
suite of sculptures that express enduring harmony over discord and coexistence over division. Through exquisitely crafted reflections on the infinite beauties of stones, found sticks, natural grasses and clays,
Mooney muses on the fragilities of our bond with one another and the fragility of our bond to place and landscape.

Mooney’s current work has developed an overwhelming sense of anima. Objects are proposed in series,
across which one’s eye shifts, contemplating the sameness and difference of things. These series seem
finite representations of allegorically infinite cycles, trajectories and journeys. The artist evokes both an awareness of these cycles, and an invitation to undertake a journey along them. In particular the
‘mandorla’ pathway abstractly depicts a journey of natural discovery.

Mooney’s work ascribes an anima to objects through a celebration of the uniqueness of things. This
anima also brushes the works, lifting and curling the natural grasses as would some elusive wind. It is
this faith in the soul of natural objects that illicit the significance of this exhibition, to bind us with nature
and the greater cycles of life.

Stefano Scalzo is a practising Melbourne based architect who is a regular contributor to Australian art and architecture journals and periodicals.

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