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Roger Bennett | Finding Polaris, 2026
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2026 Jun 06 @ 13:30 (UTC-04:00 : AST/EDT)
Roger Bennett | Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
Finding Polaris, 2026
4.3 x 14.3 x 14.3cm | 1.69 x 5.63 x 5.63 inches
Its interior inlaid with hundreds of silver dots, this bowl holds space – a shimmering night sky. If we find the Big Dipper, we can locate Polaris, the North Star, used by navigators since ancient times to guide them on their journeys. I imagine Polaris as a symbol of reassurance in times of social turbulence and instability, its fixed unwavering presence something constant we can hold to. The bowl becomes a vessel of reflection, containing not just a night sky but the belief that even amid upheaval there are points of moral rightness and certainty.
Roger Bennett is an Irish woodturner. He specialises in making distinctive bowls and vessels, which are inlaid with dots of silver and colored with wood dyes. He has featured in numerous exhibitions both in Ireland and overseas. There are examples of his work in many public and private collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Fuller Craft Museum, Massachusetts, and the Contemporary Museum, Hawaii. Bennett is a graduate (English and French) of Trinity College, Dublin.
Artist Statement: "I dream of making a bowl as strong as an eggshell, as heavy as a whisper. Of capturing and fixing my favorite colors – mallard green, oil on water, midnight in midsummer, frosty night skies.
And with silver I can indulge my love of order, impose my markings on the wood’s surface, the natural flows and eddies of the grain complemented by my precise patterns of dots."
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