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Brooke Redenius
28 year old Brisbane artist Brooke Redenius’s robot series was created at Monte Lupo Studio in Brisbane’s outer suburbs in February 2009 and took approximately one month to complete. The robot’s outer shells are constructed of BRT clay and stoneware while their inner mechanisms are found objects that Redenius has collected.
In terms of design, Redenius’s robots sit outside the two most common methods used to depict automatons in popular culture. They do not possess the hard, clean lines of ultra-futuristic representations, nor the quasi-human characteristics of machines designed to replicate humanity. Instead, the robots’ outer casings possess rounded edges and retain the earthy textures and colourings of the materials they are made from. This tension between concept - the idea of futuristic technology that robotics suggests - and materials - the organic nature of clay and stoneware – is a key feature of the work. This tension, combined with Redenius’s use of common and basic household and electronic materials, lends the work a sense of whimsy. They do not appear menacing or futuristic, but rather like a retro vision of subservient and functional robotics.
Redenius has exhibited at Marks and Gardener Gallery, Doggett St Gallery and Parliament House.