Mcclelland Gallery Wild Man Sculpture

Wild man 2005, polyester resin, silicon, horse hair, polyester monofilamant. Purchased by the Elisabeth Murdoch sculpture foundation 2008.

Ron Mueck was born in Australia in 1958 but know lives in the United Kingdom. Ron Muecks hyper-real sculptures of humans both clothed and unclothed, replicate in micro detail every aspect of the body-pores, veins, hairs, blemishes, wrinkles-with a variety that decieves the eye and challenges our perceptions of reality. To achieve this Mueck also plays with scale his sculptures despite their apparent truthfulness to life are never life size rather their gigantic or miniture dimensions serve to emphasize the discontinuties between portrayal and reality and to develop

an ambigous relationship between expectation, visual perception and cognitive knowledge.

When walking into the gallery you could tell the curator spent alot of time organising the exhibition it was very well layed out. The way it heas been curated is through time every space was a different era.Ther was alot of art pieces in the gallery, on the wall and floor which made it appealing and interesting, it made the exhibition exciting to walk around and look at every piece.

The wild man was set at the back of the exhibition as if it was hidden, once you walked around the corner there was this enormous sculpture and that was the "wild man", it was unbeliable how big this sculpture really was, it looked so real, it was so detailed every piece of hair, wrinkle and spot it was so life - like. Out in the garden at the Mccleland gallery it was so beautiful all the sculptures were spread apart and it was set around a lake which made it nice just to stroll around the lake and look at all the sculptures that are on display

i really enjoyed it there and would like to go again. I have driven past the park so many times and have always wanted to go in but never had the chance know i will go there more often i enjoyed it.