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  • Bramble Boot. Artist Garry Greenwood’s treatment of the leather, a process of wet-forming, laminating, burnishing and polishing techniques, transforms the sculpture into what looks like a wood finish.
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Bramble Boot
Artist Garry Greenwood's treatment of the leather, a process of wet-forming, laminating, burnishing and polishing techniques, transforms the sculpture into what looks like a wood finish.
Tasmania, Australia 1997
© Bata Shoe Museum, BSM P97.99

Oceania

Tasmania

Shoes have inspired visual artists all over the world. The Bata Shoe Museum holds a number of works by well known artists who have created objects of art based on the subject of shoes. Garry Greenwood was a Tasmanian artist known for his leather sculptures; he worked with laminated, wet-formed cowhide to create fantastical sculptures. The Bata Shoe Museum invited him to come to Toronto in 1997 to stage a special exhibition and explain his unusual working process.

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