Small holes in the silence

2024
Aluminium, steel, automotive paint
900 x 4400 x 4200mm

Louise McRae is an artist deeply interested in materiality, exploring
the subtleties of how sculpture can connect and respond to different
environments. With vigorous, looping aluminum shapes, McRae’s
appears to bounce over the landscape,
conjuring a sense of kinetic energy.

The title borrows a line from a poem called ‘Rain’ by New Zealand
poet Hone Tuwhare; a beautiful meditation on the invisible yet
unstoppable power of water. McRae seeks to give this force a
physical shape through sculpture. As she describes:

“Water nurtures us, necessary for life. We swim to cool ourselves in
the heat and enjoy the magical medium on our skin. When the rain
intensifies it roars on our roofs and rages down gullies and streets
with frightening power, able to destroy all in its path. The sound of
rain is captured and pressed into the surface of the aluminium, the
form rolls over ground. It is fascinating to me how a tiny gentle drop
repeated exponentially can become an unstoppable force."