Aviary, Nicole Page-Smith, 2014
For Nicole Page-Smith, early experiences of nature in Australia, included swallows at the beach. These ascended her mind to Christ via the swallow, darting in and amongst the cliff faces. Although drawing in her early years was always a past time, the study of nature continued through books. This took her hovering via hummingbirds wings as if angels visited her home. A further exploration of the unconscious objective of nature took Nicole Page-Smith to abstraction by the language of angels. This was the basis of her early wooden sculptures, first exhibited in Melbourne in 1990, where a divine passage was common and a pathway to stardust. The angelic wings of birds have the same effect on Nicole Page-Smith, taking her up higher, through the tree tops, up to the angels.
Harris Smith
