Dale Miles - Underworld
Dale Miles - Underworld
February – August 2010
Underworld by Dale Miles has been commissioned as the second project in the City of Sydney's Taylor Square Plinth Project temporary art program.
Miles’ sculpture is a series of colourful large scale arachnid legs emerging from the disused underground men’s convenience. The artwork’s design and symbolic form is a direct response to the existing architecture of the site exploring the mystery surrounding the void made by the staircase.
Underworld responds to the broader city space, dynamically opposing the forced grid of the site by providing large diagonal shapes made by the works faceted surface.
Miles explores the past and present state of the site and gives voice to a now lost ecosystem and habitat that housed a very unique Sydney species - the Funnel Web Spider.
About the Artist
Dale Miles is a Sydney based sculptor working with a diverse variety of materials. A former student of the National Art School, since 2003 Dale has created work that questions the value of human progress and its effects on ecology.
Some of Dale’s work has been exhibited in Sculpture by the Sea in 2003, 2007, 2008, and 2009. In 2009 he was shortlisted for the Blake Prize and was recipient of the Clitheroe Foundation Emerging Artist Grant. Dale has also studied sculpture in Paris and Italy and in 2003 he won the Waverley Art Prize.
Last Updated: Wednesday 13 October, 2010
