MELODY WOODNUTT | 'The Apparition' | Installation

"'The Apparition' is a conjuring and ascension of spirit. It is a futile attempt to build her grandfather FrankÕs unfinished boat which he was making out of love for his wife. Upon Frank's death, the massive boat frame stood as a 17m long, 9m wide bare skeleton Ð unfinished for 40 years with no hull, having never seen the sea. The artwork thus becomes the boat's spectral fiction and a ghostly apparition. The Apparition conjures a siren's call from beyond the spectral veil Ð seen here as a death shroud made for the boat out of wool and silk Ð it is a call into the deepest of seas to discover what answers us." - Melody Woodnutt

MELODY WOODNUTT | 'The Apparition' | 2025 | Wool / silk / wood / sound / lighting / 16mm film | 500 (h) x 800 (w) x 200 (d) cm