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Shona Wilson is a contemporary Australian sculptor, utilising natural found materials and ceramic to create both abstract and representational, 2-D assemblages and 3-D sculptures.

Shona currently lives and works on the NSW mid north coast and is represented by King Street Gallery on William in Sydney and Mossgreen Gallery in Melbourne - Australia.

Artist's Statement

“Nature is not the subject of my work, but the source of it” *1

The repetitive use of nature’s detritus brings me closer to understanding the world I share. Forms and structures within nature inform all man made architectures. The materials themselves are storehouses of knowledge and information. They act as ‘keys’, unlocking doors to memory, history and imagination.

My current work increasingly responds to and reflects upon the cross-pollinations between nature, humans and culture – playing with this evolving story.

*1 Unknown

“Her art has a beauty and an ineffable dimension which is distinct from and not imitative of nature. It is the transparent artifice of her assemblages which isolates and re-contextualises each small natural element so that its beauty can be perceived. This effect is sometimes called the heightened reality of art.”
Margot Osborne 2010