Legs eleven

Julia Robinson
Australia
1981

Legs eleven
2010
flywire, fibreglass, fabric, fixings, thread, timber, vinyl, plaster, chair, belt
Place made
Adelaide
Medium
flywire, fibreglass, fabric, fixings, thread, timber, vinyl, plaster, chair, belt
Dimensions
90.0 x 100.0 x 60.0 cm
Credit line
South Australian Government Grant 2011
Accession number
20116S9
Signature and date
Not signed. Not dated.
Provenance
Created by Julia Robinson, Adelaide, 2010; [Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, 2010-11]; purchased by the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 2011.
Media category
Sculpture
Collection area
Australian sculptures
Copyright
© Courtesy the artist and Hugo Michell Gallery

  • The goat is a powerful and loaded symbol in Robinson’s artistic practice, as well as a vehicle for incredible sculptural experimentation and technical complexity. Furniture stands in for limbs, as the blind, searching animal, its front legs propped up on wooden blocks and haunches strapped with leather and buckles, tries to drag itself across the floor.

    This configuration of forces marks a shift in the function and form of the goat for Robinson. The artist extrapolates the form of the goat into bawdy and bizarre configurations suggestive of rituals, unnatural acts and mutations and thus subjects it to quiet acts of malice and butchery. 

    Leigh Robb, Curator of Contemporary Art