Every video that I’ve ever put into a gallery is available freely on this website and my vimeo channel . Many more of my videos that have never been seen in a gallery are also available for you to watch online. I really care about the spatial context that you can only get from installing…
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In Flames: Windy Chaos (2015)
This video was created by placing laser cut black paper over an LCD screen. This obscures most of the image allowing only 18 intermittent lines of pixels to shine through. This work was shown in darkened space. This allowed for the highest level of contrast between the illuminated pixels and the black paper covering the…
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Flood tide (2013)
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…
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In Flow (2010)
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…
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Slack water (2013)
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…
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In Perspective (2010)
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…
This video was inspired by Francis Alÿs’ work ‘Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing’. See the original on Francis Alÿs’ website.
In the first of these three videos I carefully inspect a box of matches to find the differences between individual matches. In the second video I comment on the differences as the matches burn. The third video is a commentary on the burnt matches.