Meredith Cravey

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Meredith Cravey: Statement

During the pandemic , I considered the idea of adaptation, the virus required me to change almost every aspect of my life. How was I to adapt to this unexpected way of life and how would I make it work? I searched for any means of sculpting while being limited to my home during the lockdown. I've always enjoyed working through a process of experimentation, testing and improvising.These processes allowed me to focus on materiality. Through this experimentation, I discovered that sugar was a potential material to use for my art making pratice,and my body was a means to mould plaster. Using natural materials that are sugar and plaster, allow for me to partially remove myself from their own internal processes; turing from liquids to solids becuase of a variety of external factors.Because they are natural materials, they introduce an element of the unknown - I don't know how they will react with other environmental factors. Artificial matericals allow for too much prescription and predictability. I have been preoccupied by the degree to which randomness was an integral part both of my creative activity and of the life of the work itself. The nature of the sugar is to change, in both a natural and controlled way. sugarcane to molasses, to granulated sugar, then melted, cooled and allowed to cool completely into a form that is dictated by surrounding forms (plaster). Humidity affects the hardened sugar causing it to melt once again, allowing it to return to its early form that is molasses.

Meredith Cravey: Bio

Meredith is a local artist currently based in Sydney. She has recently graduated from the National Art School where she explored sugar and plaster as mediums. Her method of creating sculpture involves using soft, membrane-like moulds filled with plaster, which are then squeezed and pressed by her body to create round and flesh-like shapes. These shapes then inform the sugary element of the complete forms. The hot molasses is draped in or around the plaster, then cooling and crystallising. As the airs humidity increases, the hardened sugar returns to its liquid molasses state. Meredith’s practice is informed by the idea of entropy. Entropy is the inevitable and steady progression of all matter and energy in the universe to change toward a state of disorder or randomness. There is an element of randomness with which the plaster components are made, in the sense that the movements and contours of Meredith’s body are never the same and are not predetermined. The nature of sugar is to change and deteriorate, in both a natural and a controlled way. Humidity affects the hardened sugar causing it to melt once again, allowing it to return to its early form that is molasses. At the National Art School, Meredith was taught by Hany Armanious, Jacqueline Bradley and Dave Horton. She was part of a number of student exhibitions at the Stairwell Gallery and the Nas Gallery.

Meredith Cravey

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