This year’s David Harold Tribe Sculpture Award has been won by Sydney based sculptor Jason Christopher for his topical piece ‘Free Range’.
Free Range depicts the providers of our dietary staples, a cow and chickens, as completely mechanised Robocop-like parodies of the creatures that once dwelt on Old MacDonald’s farm. It’s a bleakly humorous view, in which the bovine’s black eyes plead from behind the computer monitors that have replaced its head. Its metal hooves stamp across a field of Astroturf, supporting skeletal steel legs secured with screws while Terminator-chickens peck at the glass cages of their screen-heads.
