Category: Sculpture
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Weeping Willow
Weeping Willow is a twelve channel audio sculpture currently on exhibition in Istanbul as part of ISEA 2011 ~ and here is a link to my individual page. The work is presented as an interactive audio sculpture in the form of a dinner table set with twelve Willow Pattern plates. Each plate is treated to…
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VoxAura
VoxAura; The River Sings. This is the VoxAura; The River Sings project which opened on August 4th 2011 as part of the Turku is Listening programme during the Turku 2011, European Capital of Culture. Download the local information here. voxaura_esite2.pdf A pre-event discussion of the VoxAura Project. Our blood has the same salinity as the…
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Radiolarians
RadioLarians new public artwork for the Lake MacQuarie City Gallery, installed February 2011. Radiolarians consists of two interlocked sculptures, laser cut in 6mm Corten steel. The forms, one cylindrical and the other toroidal have a strong morphological relationship to microscopic marine creatures, sharing symmetry with the structure of primitive Radiolaria, countless millions of which form…
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New Host_V6
Somewhat to my surprise Host has been going through manifold iterations. Ironically the work has now been shown in various forms at six international venues but has never been exhibited in Australia ~ oh well, see what you have been missing! There are technical details on the original Host page so here is a little…
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Oracle
Sculptural installation with multi-channel audio and video components. Exhibited. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 1995 as part of the “Sound in Space” National Sound Art Survey exhibition. Materials. Timber, audio-visual electronics, low frequency audio drivers. Dimension. x4 units @ 3m x 2m x 3m. Installation footprint 10m x 8m x 3m. Videotext. Single channel…
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Re-Entry Vehicle; Natural Science in the Spirit World
Exhibited. Spectro Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, U.K. 1982. Materials. Section 1. Circle: Pigmented sand; carbonised wood; pit fired earthenware vessels (x8) (35cm dia); carbonised grain; seabird skulls/bones; metal blades; Polaroid photograph.Section 2. Canoe: Steel and Weldmesh framework; clay; straw; steel wire; glass and mirror fragments (x8); Polaroids and associated negative waste; strip lights 40w. (x8). Section 3…
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Haiku
Exhibited. Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney 2003. Materials. Stainless steel, Aluminium, Audio and Solar electronics. Dimensions. Footprint variable, each unit 300m dia. x 3.5m. Notes. Haiku is a multi-part solar-powered environmental sound sculpture that distributes a series of traditional Japanese poems via miniature digital audio storage units operated by solar timers. Haiku is illustrated whilst installed…
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Ariel
Exhibited. Lux Gallery, London UK 2000 and Australian Centre for Photography, Melbourne 2000. Materials. Laser cut acrylic, copper wire, Theremin electronics. Dimensions. Footprint variable, individual units 0.75m x 0.6m dia. Notes. Be nor afeared; the isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments…
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Wunch
Time travel can be fun and instructive – here is a glimpse my first professional international solo exhibition, exhibited in 1980 at the Galerie Marina Dinkler in Berlin. Marina was a large and outgoing character, who arrived to greet me at the gallery entrance on a scooter that she used to zoom from the rear…