Vincent Meyrick 

“The presence of a lopsided and industrial being” 

Felt, plastic, cotton thread 

The ideas I explore within my artworks are at heart a reflection of the feelings I have towards myself. Through soft sculpture I am able to escape any boundaries of common sense or practicality. My interests lie somewhere between the grey area of art and clothing. Through the sculpture I wanted to prompt a quiet contemplation about what it means to be an individual and the modern individual’s relationship with society. More than just the creation of an interesting character I wanted to make a creature that would create genuine mixed feelings of interest and distance. It is site specific, and the surrounding architecture of the Princes Hill Secondary Collage are collaborative. In the same way I am inspired by Daryl Jackson’s brutalist architecture and a certain modern industrial aesthetic, fringe characters where another hugely important inspiration in my work. The creature took many notes from the snuff puppets, No Face and the felt sculptures of Nicole Havekost.  

“People room” 

Printed poster, soft fabrics, bronze, video, graphite  

The installation of “People Room” was based off my drawings of alien creatures. The work centred around our relationship with ideas of difference and other. With this alien creature as an image of the unknown I began to create a world around it. Through my drawing I was able to depict its form directly and detailed its limbs, bodily features, clothing, and posture. Then through my printed posters I developed an industrial environment. Finally, by the red jacket I was able to describe a relation of appropriation between alien and human. The jacket was human size but retained four arms, as I wanted to allude to the process of disliking things for being different then slowly changing them to become an asset. The video projection and installation utilised all of these ideas side by side and in movement. I worked collaboratively with Photographer Simone Lee and Jeweller Joey Cassis.