MealieArt

REEFlection 2022

Plastic

150 x 250 x 300 cm

$6,600

About the Work

REEFlection is a series of sculptural elements made from ordinary, everyday plastic items that the artist has collected, found or rescued from the environment and sculpturally replicated into a wonderland of corals. Amelia’s work provides a vision of textures, shapes and colours, while manipulating and exploiting recognisable objects to imitate the living reef formations and their inhabitants.

An awareness of the environmental plastic crisis facing our world is more urgent than ever before. People have admired and appreciated our beautiful oceans but have also impacted almost every ecosystem in every corner of the globe. Amelia’s aim for this multifaceted sculpture is to be a discussion piece at this crucial time of the Earth’s struggle for change, and to spur a dialogue on the effects that plastic has on our ocean and the creatures who are reliant on our life-giving reefs, oceans and waterways.

About the Artist

Amelia is a multidisciplinary artist who has spent her career working and learning within varied creative industries – designing for public and community art projects, painting murals for schools and educational sectors, sculpting for movie sets, and completing commercial illustrating for publications. Her studies and material exploration over the past decade has led her to use recycled and mixed media, forging details and visions of life within her fine art.

Amelia’s engagement with waste as a viable material and not a disposable or problematic incessant item has continued within her sculptural and installation works. Her hope is to educate people on the after-effects of excessive plastic waste and its continual degradation so as to quantify the viewer’s idea of their human footprint and to contemplate what our future might look like.