Di Holdsworth

 
  • Checkmate (detail)
  • The Devil’s in the Detail, kinetic music box assemblage, 22x12x9cm
  • Playing Schubert, 2015, music box assemblage, 13x18x9
  • See-saw, 2011, 15x13x8cm, music box assemblage
  • The Wager, detail
  • The Tryst, 2013, 35x29x14cm, mechanical assemblage
  • The Tryst (detail)
  • Checkmate (detail)
  • The Anarchist, 2021 kinetic music box assemblage, 9x11x11cm
  • The Collector, 2018, 17x10x10cm, kinetic music box assemblage
  • The Stalker, 2013, 35x29x14cm, mechanical assemblage

Di Holdsworth is an artist living in the Blue Mountains, Australia. She works in the medium of mechanical assemblage, automated with music-box movements. The layered meaning in her work is underpinned by narratives of myth, fairy tale and pop culture.

Her delicate sculptures recreate our first experiences of clockwork and wind-up objects, with their freaky-fascinating movements, their parody of human mechanics, their unnerving foreshadowing of adult desires and relationships. Peter Doyle, The Golden Age Exhibition Catalogue, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery

Represented by Stella Downer, Fine Art, Sydney

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