Robbie Rowlands is the sculpture artist who discovered and transformed this old church in Dandenong into a exhibition before it gets dimolished. The church was an active building up into January this year and is 105 years old. The main concept of Robbies work is cutting through layers and exposing layers. When Robbie first went to look at the church to see the canvas that he was going to work on, there was no floors, the first thing he thought is were he was going to put his work beacause his work is normally on the floor.
The cross that was cut out from the cupboards was transformed into a curved over cross as if it was dead, that is what i got from that scupture. Cutting the cross out from the cupboard was a big deal for Robbie, thought of his mum straight away, what would she think? Robbies family has a strong Christian background.
Apart from the church getting demolished Robbie has put alot of time making his sculptures and showing it to the public. It is really well done what he has accomplished even though many think its not art, including me, when i first walked in the church i thought what is this a building with no floor and bits cut out from the wall THIS ISNT ART, but then Robbie spoke to us and talked about his feelings towards the work and what his reasoning was behind it and then i thought IT IS ART, all art dosnt have to be painting or a outdoor sculpture and can be contemporary and out there just like Robbies work.
It was an interesting exhibition and different i have never experienced any work like this before and it was good to see and appreciate different types of artwork that can be produced.
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