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In Bronwyn Oliver's work over the last few years, she "has worked-up the busy external structures of her easy organic forms. Orb-like figures and over-sized seed shapes encase air and light within dizzying copper wire labyrinths. The surfaces have depth... The microcosmic, complex surface of an Oliver sculpture is an interface between the macroform of its overall shape and the internal cavity or void where the sculpture breathes. The ease of connection between these three formal aspects of her works along with their gently mimetic character - as alluded by their titles - constitute their elegance and simple pleasure.

There is a definite temptation to touch Oliver's sculptures. Their tactility and anatomical physicality gives them an animal-like quality. They remind us that the world is a corporeal place. Scale is also an important element in Oliver's work as her forms are often oversized - prehistorically scaled - versions of a smaller 'specimen' taken from the natural world." (Press release, Bronwyn Oliver - 2004, www.roslynoxley9.com.au)