Helen Pollock ‘Looking Back to See My Way Forwards’
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Ceramic
The familiar motifs; the body sections, the hair patterned like a New Zealand nikau frond are here. The work looks as if the sections are to be assembled to make a greater whole, but the pieces clearly don’t fit. Finders don’t match their keepers. Shadow fall unexpectedly. Are they parts of a different dream or intended for another purpose?
“We think we know how it might have been, but do we?
Where do the pieces fit? What is missing?
Are they here for a greater purpose or part of different dreams?
Reading backwards to the beginning.”
Helen Pollock
When Helen Pollock first started exhibiting in the 1980s, her sculpture had a distinctly feminist perspective in theme, form, and content. More recently, she has focused on commemorative and memorial work, giving particular consideration to the sacrifices made by New Zealanders during World War I (WWI). The impetus for this comes from personal experience. Pollock’s father was a member of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force that saw action on the western front during WWI. He died when Pollock was nine years old, and, as was the custom of the time, her mother put a few mementoes in a box in a bottom drawer and the family learned not to talk about it.
