Roman Spectres

In Roman Spectres at the Chau Chak Wing Museum at the University of Sydney, Stephen Ralph's The Other Woman sat alongside the 2000-year-old Roman marble portraits from the University's collection, a subtle intervention recognising "the continuity of artmaking, from ancient times to now...." artist statement The Other Woman is a work made up of four marble heads, each head a copy taken from a different plaster carving. Earlier this year, I conducted a trial sculpture class with the aim to copy from observation. We worked from an old plaster cast taken from a copy of a Roman marble statue of...