Close quarters | 2024

Original artwork by Isobel Rayson

Close quarters, wood carving, 41cm x 41cm x 4.5cm, framed in Tasmanian oak, 2024 

Driven to look beyond observations made in natural environments, this new work looks outward, as Isobel begins to contemplate the complexity of human relationships and the importance of connection, shaped by the ways in which we relate to, and interact with, objects and individuals in our surroundings.

These wood carvings depict long, wandering lines, weaving and intersecting across the surface of the work, alluding to interactions or conversations and inviting reflection on notions of time, memory and change.