Sally Simpson
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Precipice

I use the human figure as a vehicle to explore our relationship with the land. Using materials from my life on acreage near Canberra, and drawing on ancient traditions of the figure as a 'power object' I aim for a point of balance in a time of contradictory value systems.
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Precipice, 2013.
Nine objects baling plastic, stringing human hair on steel and timber bench.
159 x 240 x 40 cms
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The Moment In-between, 2015.
Animal bones, horse hair, grass, feathers, wire, plastic mesh, wax, linen thread.
83 x 100 x 46 cms
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The Moment In-between, 2015. other views
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Ritual Object: Anthropocene, 2018
Bones, horse hair, grass, wax, thread.
73 x 38 x 24cms

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Kneeling Figure 5, 2014
Mud, pigment, grass, bone, knitted fabric,
plastic netting, string, wire, cow hooves on steel armature.
​80 x 28 x 45 cms
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Kneeling Figure 7, 2014
Mud, pigment, grass, bone, knitted fabric,
​string, plastic netting, wire, cow horn on steel armature.
84 x 26 x 41 cms
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Kneeling Figure 12, 2014
Mud, pigment, grass, string, plastic, wire, human hair, cow horn on steel armature​.
90 x 22 x 48 cms
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Kneeling Figure 11, 2014
Mud, pigment, bone, string, plastic netting, horse hair, cow horn on steel armature.
​55 x 25 x 36 cms
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Kneeling Figure 13, 2014
Mud, pigment, bone, string, plastic netting, horse hair, cow horn on steel armature.
74 x 24 x 47 cms
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Kneeling Figure 8, 2013
Mud, pigment, grass, skull, baling twine, wax.
69 x 29 x 36 cms
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Kneeling Figure 1, 2013
Mud, pigment, skull, wire, grass, string.
72 26 42 cms
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Kneeling Figure 4, 2013
Mud, pigment, wire, grass, copper.
77 x 21 x 43 cms
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Kneeling Figure 2, 2013
Mud, pigment, skull, wire, string, horse hair.
72 x 25 x 32 cms
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Kneeling Figure 10, 2013
Mud, pigment, bone, plastic netting, copper.
​74 x 22 x 48 cms
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Kneeling Figure 6, 2013
Mud, pigment,wire mesh, string, human hair.
68 x 32 42 cms 
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Kneeling Figure 3, 2013
Mud, pigment, jaws, grass, barbed wire, copper wire.
​70 x 26 x 41 cms
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Kneeling Figure 9, 2013
Mud, pigment, skull, grass, baling twine.
72 x 21 x 39 cms
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