Jason Waterhouse

Jason Waterhouse is an Australian artist whose sculptural and installation practice explores the intersection of the natural and the manufactured. Over the past two decades, he has developed a distinctive approach that transforms utilitarian objects—tools, cars, sheds—into poetic, hybrid forms that playfully interrogate contemporary Australian identity. With a background in sculpture from Monash University and postgraduate study at the Victorian College of the Arts, Waterhouse combines refined craftsmanship with the conceptual edge of the ready-made. Born in Penang, Malaysia, his work challenges traditional hierarchies in art by advocating a non-elitist, hands-on engagement with materials and space. His interventions often result in objects suspended between the familiar and the surreal, prompting reflection on culture, memory, and environment. Waterhouse has exhibited widely across Australia, including the Biennale of Australian Art (2018) and Scienceworks Museum (2016). He is Co-Director of Stockroom Gallery, Kyneton, and the public art fabrication studio, Sculpture Co.

Cast in bronze from natural materials Weeping Caesia is a hybrid form which possesses intriguing contradictions. This finely detailed and delicate sculpture appears to suspend order, inverting norms through expert manipulation of form and materiality.

Weeping Caesia is part of a continuous exploration by the artist into the relationship between the natural and manufactured object.