Sutton Gallery artists Anne-Marie May and John Meade are both featured in the 2025 edition of the Lorne Sculpture Biennale. Entitled Strata, this year’s edition, curated by Simon Lawrie, derives it’s focus from the iconic geology of Gadubanud Country, whereby the stratified landscape of the Great Ocean Road serves as an analogy for the fact that one place is many places, layered both physically and experientially through time, culture, and species.
Featured prominently on Lorne beach is John Meade’s monumental sculpture Giulia (2025). Using Federico Fellini’s 1965 film Juliet of the Spirits as a keystone, the work’s simple abstract form is based on the extraordinary hats worn by Fellini’s characters and designed by Piero Gheradi. The faceted geometry of Giulia’s structural hemisphere is inspired in part by a marbled dome ceiling at the Red Fort in Agra, India. It’s hexagonal design also reveals subtle references to occult spiritualism as seen in Fellini’s film. On the Lorne beach, Meade’s choice of lightweight materials such as the fabric webbing utilise the sun and the wind to evoke a relaxed, yet elegant, disposition (the etymology of resolve is solvere, Latin for loosen or release).
Located on an old timber pier along the Lorne promenade, Anne-Marie May’s work Horizon portal (2025) is a prismatic viewing structure where the internal walls haven been highly polished to capture and deflect an image of the sea, sky and horizon line. Producing an optical effect similar to a kaleidoscope, this interactive work fragments the viewer’s perspective of the horizon line to encourage new experiences of place.
Strata: Lorne Sculpture Biennale 2025
Various locations, Lorne, VIC
1 – 30 March 2025