Mikala Dwyer
Subtitle: a shape of thought
By: Wayne Tunnicliffe, with Susan Best and Helen Hughes
Contributors: Tunnicliffe, Wayne; Best, Susan; Hughes, Helen
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Art Gallery of New South Wales
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Sydney
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9781741741377
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Exhibitions; Interviews; Abstract Sculpture; The Arts; Exhibition catalogs
Other titles: Shape of thought
Description: Mikala Dwyer creates objects and installations that are both playful and provocative, re-imagining familiar materials and what they say to us about the world in which we live.  Her highly engaging sculptures explore ideas about shelter, childhood play, modernist design and the relationship between people and objects.  Often beguiling in their colour and profusion, her works incorporate raw materials and found objects in inventive and unexpected ways that transform their architectural settings.  For A shape of thought Dwyer co-opts both the everyday and the fabulous to transform four of our contemporary galleries - floating 150 silver balloons high above the gallery floor, installing an elaborate suspension of fabric shapes held aloft by stockings, and building a large circular sculptural gathering that includes crystal-like Perspex structures.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-139) and index.

An exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 26 August 2017 - 4 February 2018.
Table of contents: title: Mikala Dwyer : a shape of thought / Wayne Tunnicliffe; title: Inheritance : jewellery and the sculpture of Mikala Dwyer / Helen Hughes; title: Marys, Lindas and other spirited vessels / Susan Best; title: Selected works and exhibitions 1992-2017; title: Monument for fishes / Mikala Dwyer; title: Ten questions with Mikala Dwyer / Wayne Tunnicliffe; title: Mikala Dwyer : a shape of thought 2017-18.