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Marian Hosking

May 9  to  June 3, 2006

‘Hosking looks at nature like a botanist, cares for it like an environmentalist and responds to it as a jeweller.

Hosking selects, edits and recreates small details of natural forms. Her silver works hold the memory of the plant. Their beautiful and decorative qualities are emphasised by the lustrous surface of the silver and animated by light and oxidisation. Their imprints have similarities to those of fossils. Like the voice of the past they act like the death mask of nature, preserving every detail of the plants life, from the outline of its leaf to its finest textures and characteristics.’

Claudia Terstappen, Professor of Research Monash University