Sherrie Knipe

Sherrie Knipe is a Brisbane-based sculptor and printmaker. She has exhibited extensively, and her work is found in numerous collections, including QAG, HOTA and the Tweed River Art Gallery.
Over the last few years, her preoccupation with the everyday has turned to the everyday object in decline. A bench in a local park, a gate and a clothesline have all captured her attention.
Some things fail due to overuse, others due to neglect. Either way, there is beauty in their demise. She has been particularly interested in objects that have strong linear qualities, recreating them in crudely in soft paper and tape. When satisfied by their stage of decline Knipe documents them and begins to re-make them in veneer. Her current work is a nod to the economy of line and material, which is the most part, recycled. Knipe reflects on the passing of time and the ongoing but every changing need to make.