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​Michaela Pegum
Mutual bloom VI
2020
copper, organza, terracotta, wood ash, garden, fading light, artwork dimensions - copper organza form: 210 x 75 x 65mm, terracotta form: 100 x 65 x 60mm, stone table: bluestone, steel, height 925mm, top 620 x 530 x 20mm
This is an image of an artwork I made during the COVID lockdown in Melbourne in 2020. The photograph, taken in my front yard during dusk, is a work in itself, separate but connected to the actual copper/organza art form. It is a marker of how our immediate, domestic environment became our ‘world’ during this time. It is a positive memory for me, of being able to find or create a sense of depth and mystery in my little suburban block, being able to find all I needed that night in my garden.
Michaela’s practice spans the realms of sculpture, wearable art and performance. She has a background in contemporary dance and is a PhD candidate in the school of art at RMIT. Her current research is an exploration of felt experience, garnered through the deeply embodied relationships we form with the natural world. Her process involves fostering relationships with liminal environments to explore how the sensing body meets them, and how these synergies may enrich our capacity for being and relating. These synergies find translation in her material practice where she develops unique hybrid substances and evocative forms that speak in a suggestive and sensorial language.
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