Roberta Beilharz
I am an artist working in sculpture and installation, using video art and photography as support mediums.
My work is realised through a process of attaching, altering and experimenting with materials that have inherent meanings as important expressive tools.
The rule-breaking practices of minimalist and post-minimalist artists are a large influence on my work; they encourage me to make work just for what it is, devoid of the constraints of artistic convention.
The inspiration for my work comes from my own life-experiences and memories, responding to things myself or others have done, what someone has said, or regarding issues that effect me directly such as climate change and the natural world. Through bringing my thoughts and experiences into a physical state I make sense of my own reality.
The Broken Bell is my response to the global climate crisis. Using waste I collected during the past year—after living with it in my personal space and being confronted by what I produced—a rib cage structure hangs like a bell, unaware that it’s filled with the flowing rubbish by which it is also being destroyed.
The Broken Bell, 2020
Elm wood, hook, rubbish
3800mm x 800mm x 1000mm