Karee Dahl
Peg | 2025 | Polyester thread wash n wear fabric glue, pins | 100 x 100cm
Sunshine Coast National Art Prize 2025 - Finalist
Image courtesy of the artist
Artist Statement
A peg, a practical, productive innovation. Historically, English farmers would grub out grey willow, used to keep travellers from camping on their properties, making pegs from this bush/tree. It supplied income particularly for the women. From tent pegs, JPEG’s to being pegged to the US$, this simple yet diverse useful object, is mind boggling particularly when they are a common sight scattering over our backyards, only picked up, when it’s time to mow the lawn. A useful metaphor on so many levels, that art icon of note, “the reclining female nude” comes to mind - yes!