Flux

Having travelled quite regularly between Australia and Ireland over the past year this new group of sculptures comes from a time of change, a time of fluidity and contrast. Life’s flow and the sounds, textures, and light of the natural world in the changing seasons, invoke in my work a sense of place and time through organic abstract forms.  Working with stainless steel, wood, and glass the shapes in my sculptures are sourced from both micro and macro elements of the natural world. These assemblages speak of the variance between strength and fragility, beauty and imperfection, stillness and movement, and the spiritual and physical world. Continuing with my art practice between the vast flat landscape of the Wimmera region of Victoria and an undulating coastal landscape in the Southwest of Ireland - it is where these opposite worlds meet that inform my practice. Dónal Molloy-Drum 2023

ARTIST BIO: Dónal Molloy-Drum was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland. After migrating to Australia in 1997, he now lives and works in the Wimmera region of Western Victoria. Donal studied Fine Art at the Crawford College of Art and Design in Cork in the late 1980s, majoring in sculpture. Molloy-Drum is a regular exhibitor, with work in public and private collections worldwide, including Microsoft Dublin, South Dublin County Council, the Australian Air Force, Canberra and Horsham Rural City Council. He has been a finalist in various prizes, including the Deakin Small Sculpture Prize (2023, 2021), the Swan Hill Regional Gallery Drawing and Print Prize (2020), the Yering Station Sculpture Prize (2019, 2018, 2015, 2014) the Tesselaar Sculpture Prize (2018) and was twice winner of the Yering Station Sculpture Prize People's Choice Award (2018, 2014). He has received travel grants from Creative Victoria (2022, 2020) and Regional Arts Victoria (2016, 2010) and has undertaken commissions for the City of Whitehorse, Horsham City Council and Horsham Regional Art Gallery.