Cube Anomallly

The Deakin University Contemporary small sculpture award is a prestigious national competition with a growing reputation within the arts community of Australia. In 2010 Simon Perry's work 'Cube Anomally' was selected to be part of the shortlisted finalists exhibition from over 350 national and international applicants. The exhibition featured 39 high profile artists including Lisa Roet, William Echoltz, Jock Clutterbuck, Adrian Mauriks and Augustine Dall'Ava. The prize was selected and judged by a highly respected panel comprising of Ken Scarlett OAM (curator & writer on Australian Sculpture) Geoffrey Edwards (director of the Geelong Gallery) and Leanne Willis from Deakin University. The Artwork 'Cube Anomally', is designed to represent a conflicted landscape of exploration. It metaphorically links the process undertaken by an artist with that of exploration in other fields such as historical expeditions, mining, geology, etc. Formally the work represents a conflation of organic and industrial structures to create a psychological landscape. This original work of art is simultaneously dark and playful, it is reminiscent of dense truncated forests, industrial architectures, subterranean interiors and geological/biological models. It represents a continuation of Perry's research interest into the themes of Utopia, Dystopia, Nature and Culture, illusion and dissolution.