Finalist – Swell Sculpture Festival 2022

1700mm x 1500mm x 12mm brushed aluminium

A Hole in the Head is a sculpture of a human head whose super-sized scale highlights society’s inability to recognise the enormous detrimental effects of depression. The piece’s central void represents the emptiness pervading the thoughts and feelings of a sufferer as they struggle against a vanishing sense of self and slowly slip behind the façade of shame. A Hole in the Head invites us to see through the stigma and promotes self-acceptance by recognising that strength lies in our vulnerabilities and imperfect is not synonymous with incomplete.