Lewis Fidock engages the expanded fields of sculpture and painting to create objects and assemblages that scrutinise and subvert perceptions of value, labour, history and humour. He uses a predominantly domestic (and obscure) cultural narrative to frame suggestions about a contemporary Australian ‘style’.
Fidock’s work – often wilfully absurd or downright funny – serves to both deny art’s symbolic value as well as critique the production of its meaning.

Fidock’s work seahorse don’t swim in the bush (2015) is part of an ongoing postulation upon the intersection of a satirical-based response to human emaciation and the effectiveness of environmental artworks to inspire ‘real change’ in society. By employing domestic materials, threatened native plant life and
satire driven by an unhealthy obsession to create a transparent orchid, seahorse don’t swim in the bush prompts the viewer to frame these concerns within an Australian context.