Documentation of the exhibition Dimensions of line: IOU in material thought (2014). This exhibition included a series of drawings, a light projection work and a camera obscura effect created by laser cut slits in the black-out material used in the windows of the space. The effect was particularly pronounced when the sun was hitting the…
This work was shot near the footbridge at Foord Avenue on the Cooks River in Hurlstone Park. The Cooks is one of the most polluted rivers in Sydney. The E. coli levels in the river are 60 times the safe limit for swimming. There is also a large amount of rubbish that floats up and…
In Flow shows an attempt to come to an embodied understanding of the forces that have shaped the landscape of the upper Blue Mountains. Water has not only carved canyons and valleys into the sandstone it has also collaborated with geology to create the cliffs and escarpments. And yet this has been a very slow…
In this series of works I am attempting to write two different letters by pulling and releasing strings attached to each of the four limbs. This work began with the idea of becoming a kind of mark making marionette and then went through a series of permutations that made the human puppet associations less important.
This work followed on from the Pulling strings series of works. After dealing with large pieces of canvas, huge amount string and a rather complex install I wanted to simplify things.
Slack water is part of the Margins and commons series of works that is conceived of as an exploration of marginal public spaces. This work was shot at the junction of the Cooks River and Canterbury Road south west of the Sydney CBD. Here the constraints of the river and the bridge mean that the…
In Perspective is conceived of as a technology for self-perception. The idea is that you might take any moment that you are experiencing, shrink it down and dangle it out in front of you so that you can see what it looks like from a distance. This work is also the ‘air’ component of the…
I conceived on this work after contingencies of travel led me to eat a custard apple with chopsticks in a public plaza. What started as an act born of necessity turned into an impromptu and undocumented art action. It was just odd enough to arouse the curiosity of passersby but not so strange that it…
I’m a huge fan of James Turrell’s work and I reckon Within without (2010) is one of the best things the NGA has ever purchased. I also think that it’s important to do some in depth thinking about the art that you love and this article is my attempt to do that in relation to…
This video was inspired by Francis Alÿs’ work ‘Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing’. See the original on Francis Alÿs’ website.
