Sian Watson is an Adelaide based artist who explores the relationships between humans, animals and their shared environments. Watson captures movement and narrative in her ambiguous forms, primarily made from steel and concrete. Having completed her Bachelor of Visual Arts (First Class Honours) at ANU in 2015, her practice now spans studio-based works and public art commissions.  She has exhibited art in Australia, Canada and the USA, and has been nationally collected.

Sian Watson’s work centres around animals and birds, in large elongated forms and striking gestural poses. She has made many bird figures since graduating. The rusted surface is symbolic of the intersection between human-made and natural environments, which intentionally echo the processes of deterioration, change and the passing of time. A few sculptures have a pop of yellow that evoke attention to the viewer’s gaze in an act of looking and questioning. 

Sian Watson prompts contemplation on how we perceive people’s place in the ecological landscape – whether we are integrated or a separate entity. She invites the observer to contemplate the figurative sculptures, their gazes directed towards the surrounding environment, offering a profound experience of spectatorship, wherein one not only observes the art but also the act of looking itself.