TRIBUTARIES
Tineke Van der Eecken explores the fibres of flora, fauna, and human systems in her show Tributaries. She presents jewellery, small fine metal sculptures, and biological objects formed by corrosion casting, alongside photographic images that represent the life and death thrum of fragile arterial systems:
root, river, skeleton, and vein.
Regeneration | 2021 | Vascular corrosion cast of blood vessels of equine head in polyurethane, with bleached skull | 600 x 200 x 250 mm
Tread lightly | 2021 | Vascular corrosion casts of pony front feet in methyl methacrylate | 330 x 70 x 80 mm
The disappearing | 2021 | Corrosion cast of equine bronchial tree, polyurethane | 600 x 350 x 100 mm
Sheep's Snout | 2020 | Vascular corrosion cast of sheep snout, methyl methacrylate | 180 x 70 x 60 mm
Tread lightly #2 | 2021 | Vascular corrosion cast of pony front foot in methyl methacrylate, and wire sculpture in silver | each 230 x 55 x 60 mm
Baby wallaby skull | 2021 | Silver sculpture | 95 x 35 x 35 mm
Wallaby baby skull | 2021 | pendant in silver made from found bone | 70 x 35 x 15 mm
Kangaroo paw pendant | 2021 | Reconstituted kangaroo knuckle, gold filled wire and art brass | 80 x 50 x 120 mm
Anthropocene necklace | 2021 | Found kangaroo knuckle bone cast in silver with beach-combed coral | 80 x 55 x 10 mm
Rabbit or baby wallaby? | 2020 | Recycled copper wire sculpture and found bone | 110 x 420 x 100 mm
Anthropocene bracelet | 2021 | Python bone and aegerine rock, silver | 78 x 40 x 25 mm
This ochre land | 2021 | two-finger ring with West Australian Mookaite, Stirling Silver | 70 x 50 x 5 mm
Tributaries pendant | 2021 | Eastern goldfields yellow moss opaline | 90 x 60 x 18 mm
Devonian necklace | 2021 | silver, cast acacia seeds from Fitzroy Crossing | 400 x 20 x 20 mm
Cradled ocean | 2019 | Seed casting, mabe pearl, silver | 20 x 20 x 18 mm
Devonian reef boab | 2020 | Copper wire scuplpture and sea urchin pencil spines | 150 x 260 x 150 mm
Photography by Yasmin Eghtesadi