Artists Biography.New Zealand-born Sculptor, Fe Heffernan, works with material-based sculpture. I spent over year creating this work dedicated to Art and Sustainability, using cork and plastic bottles to make this sculpture using Reuse, Recycle, Reduce strategies. Her qualifications include Sculpture from the Sydney National...
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New Zealand-born Sculptor, Fe Heffernan, works with
material-based sculpture. I spent over year creating this
work dedicated to Art and Sustainability, using cork and plastic bottles
to make this sculpture using Reuse, Recycle, Reduce strategies.
Her qualifications include Sculpture from the Sydney National Art
School, Visual Arts, Health and Arts, Resource Management and Project
Management.
Her
professional experience includes her sculptural piece of herself in a
collaboration with the European Cultural Academy 2019 Gold Lion Venice
Biennale winner about climate change.
Heffernan draws on her unique background as a National Conservation
Coordinator and twenty years of environmental and community-based work.
In particular, her experiences working at the intersections of health,
nature and art have developed from her work in Dementia Arts.
D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson’s text on ‘Growth and Form’ is a major
inspiration in her creative process through different mediums.
Heffernan’s work deconstructs organisms and their forms, such as
jellyfish, and shells. She transforms geometry in her creations. The work
often materialises in kinetic forms that explore movement, composition,
space, and reflections. She challenges the boundaries of traditional
sculpture with her commitment to sustainable practices and utilising
repurposed and recycled elements.
She has undertaken Art Residencies in the Pacific, NZ and Australia and
her work is in collections in these countries.
My work involves using found materials in unexpected ways to create sculptural forms with movement
