Lot 2

Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney
Private collection, Melbourne

Holcombe, N, Troy Emery, Artist Profile, Sydney, issue 55, 2021, accessed online:
"Troy Emery's practice is imbued with tactility that points to the role of animals and their forced complicity within contemporary life. Emery's life-size sculptures of animal forms include the usual domesticated subjects of dogs and cats but are also joined by ones that were considered 'wild' such as sloths, lions and foxes. The sculptures are often presented in bright colours and assume postures that are unsettlingly familiar, as if they could shift and breathe life at any moment. These forms however are composed of intricately placed layers and layers of textile, not flesh and blood. They remain faceless, a hint to their agency stripped through anthropocentric destruction and possession."

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