"Decoy #1"

The Murder Decoy series were developed from a suite of carved and scorched timber crows first produced and incorporated into larger installations for ‘Conjurings’, 2018 (The Lost Ones, Ballarat), ‘Gothic Beauty’, 2018 (Bendigo Art Gallery) and ‘Feast’, 2019 (Stockroom, Kyneton). Based on rudimentary decoys, they have been devised to expand on archetypal visual language that both compounds and animates the memorial space within my work. For me, they remain an important evolution in my practice, enabling me to blur darker haunting qualities with a degree of ‘decoy gaudiness’.

///

TECH SPECS
Michael’s bronze crow sculptures are counterweighted so they can sit perched on the edge of a mantel, table, plinth or beam. Though not necessary, fastening can be added to the feet of the sculpture if required.