Dana Barnes
FLUX (Held in Motion), 2026
Merino wool, silk tussah, bamboo, enviro poxy and crystals
180 H x 140 W x 20 D cm
70.8 H x 55.1 W x 7.8 D in
Approx. 35kg
70.8 H x 55.1 W x 7.8 D in
Approx. 35kg
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Description
FLUX (Held in Motion) articulates the extrusive flow traveling downslope—dark, ashen, broken “clinker” blocks carried along its rubbly surface—concealing what lies in its path as nature reasserts itself initiating the inevitable cycle of destruction, reclamation, and the birth of new formations. Barnes contorts fibers of Merino,Yak, Blue-faced Leicester, Camel, Gotland, Icelandic wool—fused with bamboo, silk and hemp—into a myriad of distortions and densities that yield an unconstrained dimensionality. Each abstract articulation is composed of multiple fibrous fragments created through hand-knotting and meticulous shearing techniques, then subjected to a boiling and bonding process before being configured into the larger amorphous structure. Informed by the ephemeral forces of nature and the mystifying, otherworldly landscapes encountered during Barnes’s research studies in Iceland, the sculptural mass works coalesce in tandem, celebrating the organic movement of textural form—solidified in time—an element that has become a signature of Barnes’s work. Just as it happens in nature—the destruction, the enshrouded darkness, the unexpected rupture, the emptiness and voids left behind without logic or order—there comes regeneration. Renewal emerges in altered form. In that compulsive growth Barnes recognises both nature’s persistence and our own human instinct to keep moving forward through pain, loss, and change. It is a reminder that even after upheaval, life insists on continuing and ultimately prevails. Barnes wanted the process of creating this work to unfold organically. She was drawn to the beauty that can emerge when control is loosened and the unexpected is allowed to take shape, much as it does spontaneously in nature. At its core, the work becomes an exploration of resilience—nature’s, and our own.Join our mailing list
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