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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 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.
Award winning piece, created specifically for the McClelland Sculpture
Survey and Award, Victoria.
Six permanent public sculptures commissioned
for COSTCO Wholesale Australia, situated at the foot of the Southern Star
Observatory Wheel in Docklands, Melbourne
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.
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.
Created specifically for the 2008 Helen
Lempriere National Sculpture Prize Exhibition, Werribee Mansions,
Victoria
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
Created specifically for the 2007 Helen
Lempriere National Sculpture Prize Exhibition, Werribee Mansions,
Victoria
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.
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
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
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 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
Articulated around the theme of eroticism, The
Love Artist presents itself as an installation in three complementary
parts. Breitengraser – room for contemporary sculpture, Berlin.
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.
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
Kunstverein Langenhagen, Germany
Made specifically for the National Sculpture
Prize Exhibition, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
Breitengraser – room for contemporary sculpture, BerlinLustgarten was a series of
large-scale ‘honey-comb’ paper sculptures, produced during a one-year Australia
Council Fellowship at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany.
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Stupa City
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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.
The third group of works are interpretations of these figures on a very large scale in fabric. The banners, entitled Six Perfections, were made in India as part of the international workshop 'Buddha Enlightened 2BE’ in Bodhgaya, Bihar. The six separate titles refer to states of mind and being in Buddhism: A Generous God; A Wise Animal; A Patient Ghost; A Tormented Being Making an Effort; An Ethical Human and A Demi-God Concentrating.
To house these incarnations is a series of assemblage sculptures, which make up the fourth set of works. Colourful plastic ‘buildings’ subtly echo the tower forms common in Buddhist architecture, in particular the universal spiritual monument, the ‘Stupa’.
Photos: John Brash
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