Metal Metcalfe
Metal Metcalfe is the collaboration of two sisters, Amy Lynch and Katie Baptiste. They make colourful artworks using repurposed materials; primarily 44-gallon drums from the food industry. Their creative practice is built around play and experimentation, scale and humour. It seeks to start conversations or lines of inquiry around long-held beliefs, structures, stereotypes and behaviours from a fresh and accessible perspective. They enjoy demonstrating – through their practice and artworks – a playful nature, a feminine sensibility to an industrial material, and humorous absurdity of scale, colour and place.
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Metal Metcalfe, Patchwork of Possibilities, 2024, repurposed 44-gallon drums .
The Burrill People’s
Choice Award
Vote for this work:
The three metal spheres in this year’s entry continue the artists’ exploration of the versatility and significance of repurposed waste materials, specifically those of the hard-wearing, industrial, 44-gallon drum.
They play with the traditionally feminine practice of quilt making, welding rather than sewing a patchwork of metal together from these drums. The quilt is a metaphor for comfort, history and family, often regarded as an heirloom. The globe structure represents Mother Earth; in nature, as in the patchwork quilt, nothing is ever wasted as everything is useful. Natural processes are constantly enacting transformation and renewal on discarded materials.
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