Stella Stellata / Starry Star

Shades of platinum-grey and amber patinated mirror
H 150 x W 150 x D 8 cm
2026

This single work is a development from a series of earlier works, Stella Nuova (2016), to which I have added geometrical complexity to increase the scale, without losing a sense of fragmentation.

Many of the mirror-works I make have a rotational symmetry, which is slightly, and deliberately, subverted by framing within an ovoid shape which has more than one centre. In turn, this questions the idea of there being a centre at all.
When I was making Stella Stellata, I was thinking about the sun, the centre of our astronomical realm, and how I could make a realm with no centre.
And I thought if I could make this exist … there might be wonder.

Gold and silver, older than our earth, cosmic travellers from another reality, these strands and nuggets formed in the stars found their way to us like all of time condensed into matter.            

Blemishes, the marks and the scratches, tell of the journey to where we are, and that we too have travelled, that we have seen, that we have known. And somehow order exists, if only in beautiful moments.

2026