Sasha Reid

An award-winning sculptor, designer and artist who has exhibited around the globe, Sasha Reid has a natural affinity for melding texture and space in intriguing ways and creating work that draw people in.
Sasha has spent most of his working life outside and involved in sculpture; from small intimate works for display in private homes to large outdoor memorials and shared exhibition events.

Awards

• Hillview Sculpture prize, 2018: Sutton Forrest, NSW, Australia

• Australia Sculpture in the Paddock: Grand Prize 2018, Canberra, ACT, Australia

About the work

Use of the multiple is a device Sasha Reid employs to speak of the interconnectedness of things and how life and living are never simple. Reid uses gravity and form to explore themes such as humans’ intervention in nature, and our own part in this complex web. He plays with the saying ‘not seeing the forest for the trees’ and asks us to consider the beauty of the whole as well as the detail when viewing complex problems and situations  The work articulates inherent qualities of the raw material; both through the imperfectness of the unworked wood and enabled in the hewn surfaces created through the making process. Trees are cut, manipulated and reconfigured into representations of the complex connections of life.

By using sections of trees in larger sculptures as components he proposes strength in numbers; that we’re better together.