Troy Emery

“Mountain Climber” , 2022.

styrofoam, steel, pom-poms

commissioned as part of NGV’s 2023 Melbourne Now

”"In Mountain climber, brightly coloured pom-poms are assembled and pinned over an underlying form to create a large-scale and abstracted animal-shaped mass. Emery refers to the display of taxidermy animals in the natural history museum setting as ‘tokens of ecological ruination’, with their display often signalling their demise. Emery says, ‘The animal body removed from the context of nature, the wild world being brought inside, is an analogy for the natural world being somehow diminished’.”

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