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2011
Six Perfections
Created for the ‘Buddha Enlightened 2BE’ international workshop organised by Delhi based artists Sanjeev Sinha and Dianne Hagen. ‘Buddha Enlightened 2BE’ took place in Bodhgaya, Bihar, India in January 2011.

Stupa City
Stupa City is comprised of four sets of works. The starting point is a group of figurative paper collages assembled from the residue of an earlier work (Letters, Lies & Alibis, 2004). The forms of these characters have been increased in scale to form the second set of works, painted onto glass, creating a different sensibility again, where geometric abstraction meets cubist funk.

2010
Top Shelf
Award winning piece, created specifically for the McClelland Sculpture Survey and Award, Victoria.
2009
Heavy Metal Jam Session
Six permanent public sculptures commissioned for COSTCO Wholesale Australia, situated at the foot of the Southern Star Observatory Wheel in Docklands, Melbourne
Mood Bomb
Mood Bomb was an exhibition of abstract oil paintings on (the back of) glass. As the title indicates these works were conceived intuitively and the paintings themselves ultimately suggested their own titles. Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne.

2008
Tritonic Jam Session
One of an ongoing series that utilises contemporary industrial plastic detritus to explore fundamental principles of modernism such as form, colour and spatiality. Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture 2008, Federation Square, Melbourne.
Studio Floor
Studio Floor was created for the group exhibition Flash, curated by Geoff Newton and Jan Duffy, at Linden – St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne.
Square
Square was an exhibition of abstract canvases at Turner Galleries, Perth, Western Australia.
Monumental Jam Session
Created specifically for the 2008 Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Prize Exhibition, Werribee Mansions, Victoria

2007
Show Court 3
Show Court 3 was a 3-day event which involved setting up 75 sculptures in a professional outdoor tennis court. Curated by Jane O’Neill, Rod Laver Arena Complex, Melbourne Olympic Parks
Industrial Jam Session
Created specifically for the 2007 Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Prize Exhibition, Werribee Mansions, Victoria

2006
A Bunch of Flowers
A Bunch of Flowers showcased three distinct groups of works: the first of many plastic assemblage Jam Session sculptures; three large bill-board scale Classic Shazzy car/girl collages and several large abstract collage works.

2005
Up She Goes
Up She Goes is a 4-minute video loop where the hanging of a large collage work (in pieces) is reversed and sped up, with sound added. Linden – St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Arts, Melbourne

2004
Letters, Lies & Alibis
Letters, Lies & Alibis was created for the exhibition Non-Stopp, a collaborative project by Cornelia Schmidt-Bleek and Louise Paramor at Project Space, RMIT University, Melbourne

2003
FOREVERYOURS
FOREVERYOURS is a series of large collages meticulously assembled using pre-hand-painted gloss paper, which is cut into numerous shapes and then pasted to form images. This imagery comprises a variety of over-scaled interpretations of the Mills and Boon series’ covers.
Off-Cuts
Off-cuts was an exhibition of the first in a series of abstract collages constructed from the refuse of the FOREVERYOURS series of collages. Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

2002
The Love Artist

Articulated around the theme of eroticism, The Love Artist presents itself as an installation in three complementary parts. Breitengraser – room for contemporary sculpture, Berlin.
Outback Heat (rug)
Made specifically for the exhibition Elvis Has Just Left the Building, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art , Western Australia and Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, curated by Boris Kremer.

2001
Heart-On

Heart-On was an exhibition of honey-comb paper sculptures, found objects and borrowed text, and was created during a 3-month residency at IASKA
Outback Heat
Kunstverein Langenhagen, Germany
A Very Public Affair
Made specifically for the National Sculpture Prize Exhibition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.

2000
foam-born

Breitengraser – room for contemporary sculpture, Berlin

Lustgarten

Lustgarten was a series of large-scale ‘honey-comb’ paper sculptures, produced during a one-year Australia Council Fellowship at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany.

PRE 2000
A selection of older works

 

 

  A Very Public Affair


 

A Very Public Affair

Made specifically for the National Sculpture Prize Exhibition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.

Catalogue statement:
The Hidden Dimensions of Seduction

‘A Very Public Affair’ is my latest variation in ‘honey-comb’ paper objects, which have been the focus of my investigation for the past two years.

In the elaboration of this series, I have followed a fascination with the seductive quality inherent in collapsible sculptural forms and have been experimenting with different sets of decorative elements. With the ‘Lustgarten’ exhibition, achieved during my one-year residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, I perfected the ‘honey-comb’ technique, pushing its limits in size and weight to construct whimsical yet disturbing and intimidating environments.

In two of my recent solo exhibitions, ‘Heart-On’ and ‘Outback Heat’, I combined paper sculptures with ready made objects, in these instances semi-erotic‚ ‘girlie’ beach towels and text borrowed from Mills and Boons romantic novels which were embroidered onto the towels. The works joined ephemeral, cheap, vulgar and garish elements into a referential ensemble where each component consolidated the others’ position to create an associative frame where the viewer was confronted with formal stereotypes on eroticism.

The present work entitled ‘A Very Public Affair’ consists of a ceiling-to-floor compilation, a physically complex structure designed to both seduce and unnerve the viewer through its peculiar spatial positioning. While at first glance the piece presents a highly controlled architecture, its formal contradictions foreground a disturbing, hidden dimension. The predominant use of black, for instance, constitutes a specific attempt to subvert the festive associations generally attached to party decorations, by implanting an unsuspected emotive and reflective level into the reading of the object.

The title of this work is of equal importance, as it reflects the current direction of my practice – that of the seductive nature found in borrowed words and imagery, which I aim to transpose into the sculptural realm.

A Very Public Affair was included in the group exhibitions, Cut-Out, at Anna Bibby Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand in 2004 and Mix Tape, Art Gallery of Western Australia, 2005.
A Very Public Affair is owned by the Art Gallery of Western Australia.



 

 

 

 

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