SUMMER 2020
Alex Seton: Meet Me Under the Dome
In The Ghost of Wombeyan (A History of Forgetting) Alex Seton has created a life-sized marble figure that lies prone on a slab beneath a heavy shroud. Should we see it as a body, or merely the impression of a body preserved in solid marble? Either way, the piece has a strong funereal connotation. The ‘ghost’ is a childhood memory of a special place – a marble quarry near Wombeyan Caves, where the artist’s family had a home from the late 1980s. It’s where the artist became interested in stone carving, being given his first hammer and chisel at the age of eight. By John McDonald
