TWO of Ballarat’s emerging sculptors have won an award for their debut work at Dunkeld’s Lost in Sculpture festival.
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Titled Infinity Blocks, the sculpture was one of 12 entered into this year’s two-week event.
Created by 25-year-olds Emma Lamb and Gabrielle Hingston, the work is comprised of numerous mirror blocks of various sizes and reflects the landscape while at the same time morphing itself in its surroundings.
“The theme we worked with was People and Place so with all the mirror blocks stacked on top of each other it meant that as a viewer you saw yourself reflected and the landscape behind you,” Ms Lamb said.
“We wanted to work with mirrors because we like the way it reflects light especially when it’s in the landscape. You get this beautiful invisibility look.
“We were also inspired by other well-known artists who we like.”
Both Ms Lamb and Ms Hingston are now based in Melbourne, having studied landscape architecture at RMIT and photography at The Academy of Design respectively.
Ms Lamb said the pair enjoyed working collaboratively on hands-on projects and would continue to enter work in sculpture festivals.
“We’re hoping to display the work at the Begonia Festival in Ballarat and there’s also a world-class sculpture festival happening in the Blue Mountains next year so we will keep working on our ideas and making things together,” she said.
“That way we can bounce ideas off each other and work well as a creative and analytical team.”
Ms Lamb and Ms Hingston walked away with $500 for their award-winning work.
