Helen Bodycomb
Mosaic Artist Helen Bodycomb
In August 2019 I concluded my PhD with a major solo exhibition called Mosaicism: Thinking in Mosaic, held at Lot19 Gallery in Castlemaine, Victoria. The culmination of four years of research and 30 years of...
In September 2016 I held a solo exhibition at La Trobe University’s Phyllis Palmer Gallery. It was one of the first opportunities during my PhD research to demonstrate evidence of thinking in mosaic as a...
Perdurance #1 and Perdurance #2 were made in response to a selection of ceramic Hellenic artefacts selected from the Trendall Collection of Antiquities for the La Trobe University In Conversation exhibition. Not a diptych but...
Just Add Water (Biodegradable Citadel and Il Futuro Remoto diptych, 2017), made soon after The Eye-conoclasm triptych, was conceptually related to another contentious political scenario synchronously unfolding geographically close to Syria in the southern Mediterranean...
Conundrum is a sculptural work encompassing both traditional and non-traditional mosaic elements, and expresses the theme of the self-repeating, chicken and egg dilemma that has occupied existential thinking for centuries. Conundrum was exhibited at Bibliomosaico,...
In August 2017 I took part in a group exhibition at Mawson Pavilion in Hobart, Tasmania, with fellow Australian mosaicists Rachel Bremner, Wendy Edwards and Pamela Irving. The works explored the relationship each artist had...
Soon after The Material and The Immaterial exhibition, I was invited by the Director of Alcaston Gallery to contribute works to a group exhibition in early 2017, Time and Tide, showing works contemplating ‘the impacts...
I was listening to the radio one day when I heard a national security advisor comment that ‘Facebook is a Spook’s Wet Dream’. To commemorate this evocative phrase exposing the absurd illusion of privacy, I...
RKM: Road Kill Mausoleum questions our desire to hold on to memory and life. Memories are captured and preserved in every aspect of our lives. Everything we construct contains, records and transmits information about ourselves....
‘Nest’ (the mosaic not the earlier roundabout sculpture) remains one of my favourite works. It was modelled on a small, very finely woven nest found in our garden in Vaughan, complete with a few delicate...
‘Digital Flock’ is the title of a small collection of delicate works on glass, made for the Detritus exhibition in 2013. Each ‘Digital Flock’ mosaic features a pixelated rendition of a local indigenous bird. ...
In 2012 I was sufficiently incensed by the imprisonment of Nadya Tolokno from Pussy Riot as to be inspired to make a work as a gesture of support. To commemorate a voice that can be...
Blancmange was an exhibition of diverse works made in response to a collection of antique homewares at Hugh Webb Antiques. They included various interpretations on the theme of blancmange and included a range of small...
Lucky was a private farewell gesture by me to René Schaefer, who had been my studio assistant and artistic collaborator over many years during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Our working relationship ended when...
Manga Medusa (Helen Bodycomb and René Schaefer.) One day as Ren and I were working on a commission in my large Northcote warehouse studio, we began to speculate what we would make afterwards during a...
Shroud was a memento mori[1] installation exploring material fluidity and the earthly repatriation of matter. A burial shroud adorned with a Hellenic-inspired mosaic emblema featuring native plant forms hovered close to the ground, and nearby,...
I have always found the humble chicken wishbone an enigmatic symbol; a life past, a curious piece of anatomical design and of course the object central to games of sibling rivalry. The custom of drying...
In 2003 René Schaefer and I mounted an exhibition called Degustation of Mosaic within the historic brick kiln gallery at Northcote Pottery in Melbourne. We made a series of 25 cm sampler type mosaics, in...
