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The Claim

Australian sculptor Bronwyn Oliver created a sculpture titled "Globe" that is a rounded, hollow sphere made from copper and bronze wire using weaving and soldering techniques.

The Short Version

The artwork and its overall form are accurately described. Reliable sources confirm that Bronwyn Oliver created Globe and that it is a hollow, spherical sculpture made from copper-alloy metal in a woven-looking lattice. The main caveat is technical: catalogues describe brazed copper-alloy wire or rods, not specifically “copper and bronze wire” made with “soldering.”

Caveats

  • Authoritative records describe the material as brazed copper-alloy wire or copper rods, not explicitly as separate copper and bronze wires.
  • Brazing and soldering are different metal-joining processes; the documented term for Globe is brazing.
  • “Weaving” is an approximate visual description of the filigree lattice, not the main catalogue term for the fabrication method.

The Receipts

  1. Globe - Bronwyn Oliver | Celebrating UNSW Women

    Celebrating UNSW Women

  2. Bronwyn Oliver: Globe, 2002 - Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery

    Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery

  3. Bronwyn Oliver - Artworks & Artist CV

    Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery

  4. Bronwyn Oliver

    Art Gallery of New South Wales

  5. FLOW, 2002 | Deutscher and Hackett

    Deutscher and Hackett

  6. Search results for Bronwyn Oliver

    National Gallery of Victoria

  7. Collection search results for Bronwyn Oliver

    Art Gallery of New South Wales

  8. Copper Wire Weaves and Spirals into Organic Sculptural Forms by Bronwyn Oliver

    Colossal

  9. A Grand Completeness: Bronwyn Oliver: Strange Things

    Sydney Review of Books

  10. The Shadows Within – Bronwyn Oliver

    Southern Wild Co

+ 4 more sources — see the full list on Lenz

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