Frank Duyker Issues and Stories in Wood
Nov 16 - Dec 15 2024
Frank Duyker
Frank started carving wood in his mid-teens and since then has maintained a keen interested in most aspects of the visual and performing arts.
After working in the electronics industry for a few years he began teaching electronics at Box Hill Institute. Soon he began studying Industrial design part-time at RMIT, reasoning that it was the ideal way to bridge the gap between sculpture and engineering. By then, his exposure to Aboriginal, Melanesian and Oceanic art had introduced more colour and mixed media into his work.
In 2010 he produced his first large work “Tech. Men at the Top”. The piece which is now in the Smorgon family collection, was made of cast cobalt blue concrete studded with gold plated computer CPUs. In 2011 his work “Our World Covered with Crops”, which was made from reclaimed floppy and hard computer disks, received a special commendation at Lorne Sculpture.
As an Artist, Frank is not afraid to tell it how it is. He makes us all look in the mirror and questions our past, present and most importantly our future.
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This work depicts a can of mermaids. The relentless exploitation of the sea may see the extinction of as yet undocumented species, perhaps even mermaids.
315 x 275 x 105
$4,500
1. Three Canned Mermaids
Jelutong
This work depicts a can of steamed baby koala heads prepared in a delicious platypus sauce. If not for the protection of wildlife, such products would be possible. If in doubt, consider that in 1927 hundreds of thousands of Koalas were killed in Queensland for the fur trade.
315 x 300 x 100
$4,500
2. Baby Koala Heads in Platypus Sauce
Jelutong
This work depicts a monstrous cleric violating someone’s childhood. Such scenarios were common. Not all clerics were evil but the church often closed ranks to protect its “reputation” and to avoid paying compensation.
$3,200
3. Thou Shalt Not Huon Pine
105cm x 105cm framed
This small work depicts defensive devices. Hand guns can be used to protect their bearers but in the case of the bishop’s mitre, abusive clerics were protected by the assumption that they were men of god and so could do no wrong.
4. Defensive Equipment
Wood
98 x 227 x 43
$900
Many people have traumas, worries or regrets that they keep bottled up. These demons can adversely their lives and so are best vented, at least by talking to a friend. This sculpture depicts someone embracing a huge inner demon. The top mouth depicts his unwillingness to talk about it.
5. I’m Not Talking About My Inner Demons
34 x 13 x 11.5cm
$1,800
Jelutong
This small work depicts three types of protective equipment: a diving helmet, a welding mask and a bishop’s mitre. The latter protected some wrong doers by associating them selves with good and godliness.
6. Protective devices
Mahogony
83 x 165 x 34
$900
This small work depicts destructive devices, namely: Klu Klux Klan head coverings that symbolise hatred and intolerance and a bomb.
7. Destructive Equipment
136 x 177 x 45
$900
Wood
8. Danger - Sacred Stingers
Carved Huon pine
42 x 21 x 3cm
$2,200
9. Thylacine Viewing Extinct Humans in Museum
Huon Pine
250 x150 x 450cm
$4,500
This work depicts a male figure engraved with vacuum tube circuitry and bristling with ready to be connected audio visual cables. Although this is some what a retro view, listening to music and watching screens remains one of the predominant pastimes of many people today.
10. Audio Visual Man
Scotts Pine and Cables (all reclaimed materials)
450 x 250 x 70
$2,200
Like a religious shrine, this work depicts an all to common creature, The Bad Boss. He stands naked except for a business tie; wearing the emperors new cloths. His head is spiky, with an unhinged mind with “NO” on his forehead. One fist is clenched while the other has a boxing glove, indicating his aggressive nature. The two sculls underneath him, remind us that such people not only cause unhappiness and loss of productivity but sometimes even illness and death.
11. Shrine to the Immortal Bad Boss
Jelutong and Kauri
560 x 500 x 190
$5,500
Depicts a developer planning new buildings, new suburbs and new freeways. The congestion and the effect on the environment is not considered.
70 x 45 x 2
$1,200
12. The Developer
Reclamied Timber
Depicts a person excited about the prospect of flying around the world away from Australia.
13. The World is My Oyster
Reclaimed wood
60 x 45 x 2cm
$1,200
Perhaps we are fools to be working 9 to 5, owning two cars per family and watching television every night but that is life for many of us.
14. Nine to Five
Reclaimed Timber
48 x 36 x 2 cm
$950
Depicts a man in his armchair with a jester’s hat. The television below is his principal source of information and it is also how he travels.
15. Arm Chair Expert
Reclaimed wood66 x 30 x 2 cm
$1,200
Depicts high density living with cars parked nearby.
16. The Suburbs
Reclaimed teak flooring and Victorian Ash
70 x 60 x 2 cm
$1,800
17. The Last Thylacine Hunter
Monterey Cypress & Paua Shell
75 x 42 x 20cm
$19,500
18. Shrine To The Once Acceptable Reclaimed timber decking
180 x 50 x 50cm
$30,000