Artwork

New Skin, Old Moon explores themes of identity, cultural confusion and superstition; all influential factors in how Sue-Ching Lascelles was raised by her Chinese Malaysian mother and, in turn, how she raises her own child. These themes continue to inform how Lascelles views her place in the world, as an outsider between two cultures and as a mother struggling to determine the relevance of her mother’s lessons.

Curated by iAM Projects for Gasworks. Transforming what are typically worksite construction materials, I created a site-specific, outdoor installation for the Generate exhibition. Employing craft techniques to fabricate colourful adornments for the trees in the park area at Gasworks. The use of vivid colours and angular shapes mimic the repetition of patterns found in the original Gasometer Frame.

A collaboration with Tristan Houghton, film making/director for the Seven with Another sixth edition. With the theme being six, we used our supernatural powers and tapped into our sixth senses to create this work. My part involved constructing this beyond neon shark with laser beam eyes. Tristan's contribution was a film that was shown inside the sharks mouth. Based not the idea that sharks have a sixth sense which enables them to sense electromagnetic fields in the sea. This project unites the two artists through the use of sculpture and film in this site-specific installation. 

An installation at the Artisan Ivory Street Window, Brisbane.

We tend to accept the common notion that death is the end of a form of life. For most living organisms like plants and humans death not only signifies an end but also precludes a necessary beginning for new life. Delicately tactile, and intricately detailed, Aint got no money, aint got no hair is a work that demonstrates the inherent beauty of life through death.

Mixed media wall works created from stills from the popular TV show 'Cops'. Seeking to find the satire in the horror of life.

I Wouldn’t Be Alive was a site-specific installation at Artisan. Inspired by both tranquility and fear and deriving heavily from an episode of I Shouldn’t Be Alive, a television series which reenacts exciting tales of human survival, as well as my own personal fear of the ocean.

Mailbox 141 is a gallery space housed in a stairwell on Flinders Lane in Melbourne. 19 tiny hand painted sculptures made from clay and crystals for the 19 tiny window boxes. Cabinet of Cities. Invisible Curiosities interconnected two main ideas: A Cabinet of Curiosities: A pictorial inventory of Albertus Seba’s collection of natural specimens, and Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino. One is imagery described through the use of words, the other is the natural world represented in pictures. 

An outdoor installation curated by Natasha Smith and Megan Cope in collaboration with UAP for the Art with Altitude Festival, Brisbane. The woven canopy was suspended between two buildings over a walkway.

Inspired by the concept of being immersed in tiny explosions of fireworks in the sky,Falling for Fireworks will also animate notions of mapping, history and navigation. With fire being one of the four elements in ancient philosophy and astrology, this installation seeks to imaginatively portray these ideas. Constructed from vibrantly coloured nylon ropes and synthetic materials, the artwork will employ traditional craft-based techniques such as macramé, knitting and basketry weaving for its construction. 

Touch may be a basic human need but it is more complex than it seems. In her provocatively titled soft sculpture work, Touch Me, Sue-Ching Lascelles dramatises the contradictory impulses that underwrite our longing to both be touched and to protect oneself from the invasiveness of unwanted touching. A claustrophobic tangle of hands crafted from felt hang theatrically from the gallery roof and the viewer must push them aside to move through the space. While their warmth and tactility offer some comfort, the disembodied nature of the hands, their anonymity and their monumental scale are deeply unsettling.

This work was part of the Young Brisbane Artists project, exhibited at Metro Arts, Brisbane.

Highlighting the fear of Magpie season in Queensland where at any moment you could be a threat to their nesting habits and attacked. No one is safe.