Kirsteen Pieterse

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Private collection, Sydney, 2022

July 29, 2022

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“Cornerstone”, 2022, marine plywood and stainless steel, 74 x 41 x 40cm

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“Untitled”, 2022, aluminium, 40 x 170 x 8cm

University of Western Sydney Sculpture Prize, Campelltown Campus, Sydney

July 29, 2021

‘Prosthesis’, 2021, marine grade stainless steel, 224 x 185 x 120cm

The focus of my work is landscape; my sculpture draws upon the relationship between landscape and built environments. Since 2005 I’ve made a series of broken and damaged trees. Prosthesis represents the landscape as I see it now; vulnerable and damaged, yet cradled with a makeshift attempt to support it and keep it viable.

WOA! Hong Kong Artists, The Stallery, Wan Chai, Hong Kong

July 29, 2021

July 2021

“Urban Pastoral’, 2021, aluminium and plywood, 77 x 67 x 9cm

6x6x6 inch miniature show, Defiance Gallery, Sydney

July 29, 2021

July 2021

‘Feather and Wedge’, 2021,

stainless steel and marine grade plywood, 15 x 15 x 15cm

Read about it here…

ARCA Hotel, Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong

May 29, 2021

May 2021

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“Immortal’s Incline”, 2021, marine plywood, 70 x 180 x 90cm and 90 x 100 x 70cm

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“Journey”, 2015, marine grade stainless steel, 115 x 53 x 15cm

The Hong Kong Jockey Club Clubhouse, Happy Valley – Commission

December 20, 2020

These 2 sculptures are newly installed, site specific, commissioned sculpture work for the Hong Kong Jockey Club in Happy Valley, HK.

These works were made for the space inside the Clubhouse which links the old clubhouse and the new extension. The windows around this space look out onto Mount Butler and Mount Nicholson.  

“Hushed Inception”, derives from and seeks to suggest the architecture of the old clubhouse and the adjacent presence of Mount Butler. 

“Tend and Settle”, represents the architecture of the new clubhouse extension and the nearby Mount Nicholson. 

Story from exhibition:

“The third floor link building makes a positive connection between tradition and the contemporary.  A pair of sculptures by Scottish artist Kirsteen Pieterse likewise make a nod towards tradition while employing contemporary elements that are contemplative expressions of nature and our human interactions with it.  In Hushed Inception she uses a stack of shaped plywood to suggest the form of Mount Butler and a metal structure to reflect the undulating rooflines of the old Clubhouse.  In Tend and Settle she uses the same materials to represent Mount Nicholson and the facade of the new Clubhouse building.

The mountain forms are reminiscent of the scholar rocks that the Chinese literati used to contemplate the vastness of nature, which are then put into a contemporary conversation with the powerful yet delicate tracery of stainless steel structures that may on one hand evoke man’s ability to transform nature and build our own monumental forms through architecture and engineering, while on the other may suggest the forms of clouds which may envelop mountains or the heavy pelting rain that they bring with every monsoon.“

‘Persona’ group exhibition Gallery HZ, Hong Kong

October 20, 2020

20 August – 3 October, 2020, at Gallery HZ

In August – October 2020 I exhibited 2 wall sculpture works in ‘Persona’, the first group exhibition at Gallery HZ in Hong Kong.

Small New Sculptures – 3 person exhibition, Utopia Art Sydney

January 20, 2020

January 2020 at Utopia Art Sydney

In January/February 2020 I exhibited with my friends Physsa Koshland and Christopher Hodges in a 3 person show, ‘Small New Sculptures’ showing our new sculpture work. I made 2 paper works titled “Thekla 1” and “Thekla 2”, based on Italo Calvino’s ‘Invisible Cities’ book, chapter ‘Cities and the Sky.3’.

‘What’s On Paper’ exhibition at Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre

December 28, 2019

In December 2019 I was very happy to be included in this excellent group exhibition of Hong Kong artists. The works had to be ‘on paper’ and as a sculptor I chose to make sculptural pieces from paper I had ‘made’ in the studio. 

Here is the press release:

“On December 11th (6:00pm) the reception of the exhibit ‘What’s on Paper’ in the Visual Art Center (Admiralty, Hong Kong Park) is destined to be a shining gala. It has gathered 36 crème de la crème local artists in presenting their recent works on paper. Quite a few extremely influential teachers from various universities including Siu Kee Ho, David Clarke, Lukas Tam, Jane Liu, Cornelia Erdmann, Chun Fei Chow etc. will be presented. Works of Frog King Kwok and Shirley Tse, who had represented Hong Kong in the Venice Biennale 2011 and 2019 respectively, will be shown. Furthermore multi-discipline artists’ works, for instance Zunzi, Night Fung, Poon san, Gerard Henry and Tim Li, will meet the public. Last but not least Uncle Chim and Aries Lee, both have coined their names in the Hong Kong art history are taking part, which makes the exhibition a ‘Not to miss’. All art lovers are warmly invited to come and cheer for this artist self-motivated and organized party! “

Artomity – Autumn Issue 2019 – South Island Art Day

July 28, 2019

Artomity featured my work in their Autumn issue 2019 for the South Island Art Day

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