Nungu Stance

180cm x 120cm x 150cm

salvaged Automotive plastics, aluminium frame & stainless steel fasteners

2017

Nungu Stance is sculpture born out of a commission I did for the 2017 Homegrounds Festival held on the forecourt of the Sydney Opera House. I was asked to make some lightweight chook wire kangaroos sculptures to grace the stage at the festival. I accepted that commission but also asked if I could make another Kangaroo that employed the material and style I was currently playing with. Nungu stance was exhibited at the festival before going on to be exhibited at the 2018 Brunswick Heads Sculpture Nature Trail and then got bought by Regal Retreats Pty Ltd. and was permanently installed at the Mistere Spa & Retreat, Urliup Northern NSW.

Accompanying the piece was the following statement;

Nungu is a Gumbaynggirr word for Kangaroo. 

A social worker once told me that in order to diffuse the anger of young boys she would ask them to stand like a Nungu.

Knees bent, chest set back, lower your centre of gravity and send all that negative energy through your imagniary tail in the earth.