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Honey Crawford
Honey Crawford 'One's Enough' 2008
Stoneware with Engobe Slip
27 (L) x 14 (w) x 24 (h).
Honey Crawford 'Garden of Entropy' 2008.
Stoneware with Engobe Slip
27 (L) x 14 (w) x 24 (h).
Sydney based artist Honey Crawford, is in her final year of a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the National Arts School, Sydney. Honey gained an Advanced Diploma of Fine Arts at Wollongong TAFE in 2002 and embarked on an arts practice working with steel sculpture. In 2003, Honey was awarded the Blue Scope (BHP) Steel Sculpture Prize. Her interest in sculpture now manifests in her work with ceramics and is informed by the experiences of adapting to this new medium. Honey is presenting an artist talk at AART.BOXX about the evolution of her artistic practice.
Artist Statement
Centuries of genius, exacting insight and revolutionary innovations reign over me with superior artistry far beyond the realm of my own capabilities. Yet I escape that looming shadow by just living and creating in the present moment, offering what small contribution I can to the time I have left in the history I exist in. Taking from it only what I need to comprehend whatever path lies directly before me. Its how I make sense of the world and my place within it.
So my work stems from an extension of my being, playing out themes of poetic commonality that bind us all – love, work, travel, landscape, bodies, hope, tyranny, freedom, triumph, despair. Any of these things that happen to make us who we are. In other words I work to find a balance between my own world view and something which is open to the interpretation of others. Too referential to my own life and it would confuse and distance the onlooker.
And I hope to dissolve that boundary of viewership – maybe others can engage in the artworks presence, to set up a dialogue of our shared pool of existence. But I can only honestly create something from my own experience, in all its mystery, complexity and simplicity. After all, the only thing I can truly comment on is the life I have lived.