Robert Hirschmann's exhibition at King Street Gallery on William will feature paintings, sculpture and introduce Robert’s ‘Chainsaw Drawings’. The drawings are a very direct and intuitive medium that interpret a decade long exploration into the upturned local tree roots from North East, Victoria; the effect of an environment harassed by drought, flood and fire.  

The 18mm form ply takes on a sculptural quality when the chainsaw removes the skin, exposing the layers of laminated wood beneath- an irreversible process. The external interpretation of the local tree roots becomes an internal search of mortality with the tragic loss of special people in 2013 and the ailing health of the artist’s father.

“The tree root has become a memory, and this exhibition manifests a universal language in many forms of everything yet nothing”.
- RH, 2014

*image (left)
Robert Hirschmann
c.s.d. #30
form ply, 240x240cm
courtesy of the artist and King Street Gallery on William