Ida Lawrence Indonesian–Australian, b. 1988
The Eagle and the Net, 2025
oil and acrylic on clear primed jute
85 x 85 cm
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This work begins with an eagle sculpture Lawrence encountered near Berlin, glimpsed through a stretch of netting. From one angle, the net seemed to shield the bird,an image of care....
This work begins with an eagle sculpture Lawrence encountered near Berlin, glimpsed through a stretch of netting. From one angle, the net seemed to shield the bird,an image of care. From another, it looked like containment. That ambiguity sits at the heart of the piece. The sculpture doesn’t change, but her reading of it does, revealing how perspective shapes the stories we impose on what we see.
