Adriano Gemelli

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12th June 2025

Sculpture

All designs copyright (c) Adriano Gemelli | Commissions Accepted | Licensing of designs available – Contact the Artist for details

  • Birds of Feather

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    Installation view – RMIT gallery
  • Birds of a Feather

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    Suspended painted laminated newspaper, supporting grid, 12mm glass, dried chicken feet (metaphor for vox populi) glass boxes with birds nests containing letterpress type – exhibited at RMIT

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  • Ode to a rabbit

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    Rabbit trap, steel, candle
  • Detail of ‘Faux play’

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    Stainless steel, brass, etched glass and de-constructed forks & spoons
  • Faux Play

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    Stainless steel, brass, etched glass and de-constructed forks & spoons
  • Detail of ‘Fork in the road’

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    Artist handmade frame containing $5 note, mosaic playing cards, engraved acrylic. Chains and mock 6 inch nails
  • Fork in the road

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    Artist handmade frame containing $5 note, mosaic playing cards, engraved acrylic. Chains and mock 6 inch nails
  • Detail of Punch, whine, bitter suite

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  • Punch, whine, bitter suite

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    Artist’s cast hands, etched stainless steel, creating a house of cards
  • Fork n Age

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    Modified geriatric fork, Age masthead
  • A spoon in times save a faux in the bush

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    Rusted artist handmade paper, brass, gold-leaf gum leaves, modified forks & spoons & mixed media on stainless steel substrait

Can you trust a camellia

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23 carat gold, brass, copper & reflective hologram laminated 20mm glass,  sandblasted with camellia design on one side – poem on opposing side

Can you trust a camellia

Sunday morning……….white camellia

Seductive…………………………………

Visually caressed………….raped?….

By drawing……………………………..

Floating music…………………………

Morning like others…………………..

Twists – turns of mind………………..

follow mist of past thoughts………..

unresolved, evocative concepts ephemeral…

……stepping stones…………………………….

Abyss…………multiplicity….crosslinking….

Matrix……moving………………………………

The child/adult…………………………………

Colliding…………emotion…….fantasy……

……fact……………………………………….

Mined………your…….thinking……………

Blood red………………..with expectancy..

Coffee……………atrophy……………………

Suck – cold sweetness…jolts..hot passions..

……timid hand…………………………………

arabasque………frozen meaning………….

……writing……………………………………

Stills …………seasons…………………..

Try………..and try………………….again

……………..dead……………………………

Garland…………..of…………….no sense

Thoughts raggety stitched….brocades….

Worntorn..hand me down..frayed……….

…….ideals………………………………….

flapping….incessantly…….masking…..

shimmering…cracks in the wind……

Magpies…always………wear…

…..black and white………………….

Droplet of wine….irrigates..what worlds?..

Heart…………………………..resonates

……………………..Unity…………………

……………..The infinite………………….

The pen…………………….emptied

ADRIAN GEMELLI 1992