A long-ago discarded length of rusted fence wire and a tree branch become a sculptural basket in Brooke Munro’s talented hands.
Bones, the remains of a plate of osso buco, are bleached and made into a decorative finial for a wire lampshade or a ruff on a string tassel.
A sculptural textile artist, Brooke is interested in revealing the possibilities of found objects and giving them a second or third life. She collects natural material, such as branches and twigs, vine tendrils, flaxen grasses and red-hot poker stems, on Endeavour, her parents’ property at Wildes Meadow, near Burrawang, in the NSW Southern Highlands.
Some materials, such as animal bones and wire, from heavy gauge copper to fine electrical, will stay in situ until she’s ready to use it, but grasses…
