Community wood sculpture shown in Newcastle CBD

Newcastle based designer makers Jono Everett and Hannah Cheetham are ‘all about community, about getting as many people involved in this workshop and hands on as possible, and breaking down barriers for people to do so!’
 
Making that happen most recently was Morphology, a large scale collaborative sculpture building project for this year’s New Annual arts festival in Newcastle.

Morphology by night, Wheeler Place, Newcastle. Photo: Edwina Richards
 
The event took place from 27 September to 6 October in a series of 14 back-to-back creative fabrication and sculpture  sessions in the collaborative workshop founded and managed by Jono Everett and Sophia Emmett. ‘It’s been unbelievably hectic’, said Jono. ‘More than 160 people have been through our workshop over seven days to fabricate this giant sculpture in collaboration with Hannah. The result blew everyone away and we have interest from galleries and festivals who want to exhibit her.’

Installing the sculpture in Wheeler Place
 
The sculpture was the product of ‘collecting, disassembling, reimagining and reassembling old, forgotten and obsolete timber furniture and creating an amazing sculpture that speaks to memory, dissonance, and domesticity.’
 
The finished work is on show in Newcastle’s CBD, in Wheeler Place Plaza.

Learn more at https://newannual.com/explore/events/morphology