Atlass / Ms Atlass
© Susan Dorothea White
Atlass / Ms Atlass 1992bronze
32 x 15 x 15 cm (6.8 kg)
Limited edition of 7
Private collection, Australia (ed. 1/7)
Newcastle Art Gallery, Australia (Accession no. 2009064) (ed. 2/7)
Collection of the artist (ed. 3/7 and 4/7)
Artist's Statement:
A female version of Atlas! She can hold the weight of the world on her shoulders with ease. The sculpture is inspired by a Mayan figurine holding a water pitcher that I saw in the Ethnological Museum, Berlin-Dahlem in 1990. I made a pen sketch in the museum, then a plasticine maquette while living in The Netherlands. After I returned home to Annandale in 1991, I made the clay model, then a plaster mould, and cast the sculpture in wax. This wax model was then used to make the master mould at the foundry.