Ross Byers

Tasmanian artist Ross Byers is resident in the ANU sculpture workshop until the end of August. His focus for the residency relates to a conversation he had in Glasgow with a man who had an impeccable memory. Byers asked him how he was able to remember names and dates, even years after the encounter. The man visually described a cloud that meandered through his mind space to which memories were attached. This vision has materialized in Byers’ sculpture as giant bodily canals, which can become a metaphor for memory.

Byers has been using cardboard to sculpt large colon like forms suspended in space adding physical structure to the idea of forming and digesting memory. For Byers cardboard as a material is ubiquitous, fragile and robust, just like memory can be.