Louise McRae is an artist deeply interested in materiality, exploring the subtleties of how sculpture can connect and respond to different environments. With vigorous, looping aluminum shapes, McRae’s Small holes in the silence appears to bounce over the landscape, conjuring a sense of kinetic energy.

The title borrows a line from a poem called Rain by New Zealand poet Hone Tuwhare; a beautiful meditation on the invisible yet unstoppable power of water. McRae seeks to give this force a physical shape through sculpture. As she describes:

“Water nurtures us, necessary for life. We swim to cool ourselves in the heat and enjoy the magical medium on our skin. When the rain intensifies it roars on our roofs and rages down gullies and streets with frightening power, able to destroy all in its path. The sound of rain is captured and pressed into the surface of the aluminium, the form rolls over ground. It is fascinating to me how a tiny gentle drop repeated exponentially can become an unstoppable force.”