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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

 

 

  Monumental Jam Session

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Monumental Jam Session
Created specifically for the 2008 Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Prize Exhibition, Werribee Mansions, Victoria

Catalogue statement:
My contribution to the 2008 Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Prize exhibition extends themes presented in Industrial Jam Session, my entry of last year. As the current title suggests, this year’s sculpture is larger in scale and takes the form of one complete assemblage rather than a suite of six.

The Jam Session series explores fundamental principles of modernism such as form, colour and spatiality. What makes these works distinctly of our time are the materials employed – industrial plastics, which are widely used in the manufacturing world. These plastics are especially tactile and often lurid in colour – characteristics which, not surprisingly, evoke an irresistible sense of play, albeit on a grand scale. Also evident are references to some of the most serious issues facing us today.

The main component of Monumental Jam Session is a grouping of four large, bright-orange ‘water barriers’. These barriers are a common sight throughout Melbourne, being literally lined up like snakes throughout the city and into the suburbs. Their presence indicates a city in a state of flux, disrupted by building and road works, demolition and restructuring.

Industrial flotsam occupies much of our visual landscape. For me this material is loaded with aesthetic and associative potential. In making this sculptural work I have embraced the physicality of this ‘stuff’ to create dynamic, anthropomorphic works that also offer viewers an opportunity for reflection on our wider built environment.

Materials: Plastic, steel, bolts
Dimensions: 500x120x420cm


 
 

 

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