Threads of Life New glass works by Meng Hoeschle: 6 – 28 November 2009

Meng Hoeschle has lived and worked as an artist and arts manager in the Top End of the Northern Territory since 1974.

Meng’s work refers to her Chinese Malay heritage and expresses metaphorically her physical and spiritual journey. She uses mainly recycled materials to symbolise the cycle of life.

Fish bones and coloured sands suggest the life and country of the people with whom Meng lived and felt so at one with on remote NT communities. Found objects such as fragments of corrugated iron and other metals refer to the earth’s minerals, transformed in past times to functional objects and now transformed again, reflecting the continual changes of state of all matter.  Copper wire is threaded, knotted and fused within glass, to indicate the many threads of experience within her life’s journey.

(Image: Glass artist Meng Hoeschle installing her work at the Nomad Art Gallery )

Detail Threads of Life by Meng Hoeschle, glass, sand and copper wire © 2009

Gallery installation