Zootopia
Stockroom Kyneton, gallery one
25 May / 26 June 2022
KATE ROHDE
Zootopia
In Zootopia Kate Rohde presents several new and reworked pieces inspired by the historical Wunderkammer - shells, gems, corals and a menagerie of beasts fused together in a zoomorphic soup. Rohde’s imaginative and fanciful sculptures fuse museological documentation with a Rococo and Baroque aesthetic.
Created from a range of sculptural techniques, within these works are artificial representations of the natural. Here the use of inventive materials conveys an unusual beauty, nature reimagined in resin, plaster and clay, and rendered in a hyper colourful palette. Rohde invites you to enter a realm of fantasy, motivating contemporary discussions regarding ecology, extinction and preservation.
