Anna Bonshek's exhibition Friends evokes the idea of connection, relationship and interdependency. Bonshek's sculpture installations, created from locally-harvested Ironbark and SheOak timber, sandstone and volcanic bush rock, invite us to appreciate materiality, presence, and play in her work. Inspired by the potency of the forested bush – a rich and complex ecosystem – and the substance of natural stone, Friends speaks to existence, connection, cooperation and togetherness.
With its rich multilayered meaning, Bonshek's work "creates an archive of memory—a memory bank, a memory palace—which she embellishes and feeds into her work", and "rhythms and cycles—the rhythm of nature, the rhythm of human beings, the rhythm of an activity; rhythms that are larger and smaller, rhythms that are not always apparent, rhythms that collide with each other", Manu P. Sobti observes.
Anna Bonshek's Friends invites us to pause, reflect, and consider the inexplicable as familiar.