| Selected
past projects
Architectural and domestic design and metal
work:
• An interactive tactile fountain for the SCOPE
Chelsea Day Centre for people with cerebral palsy.
• Custom furniture designs.
• Various domestic design projects including gates, fences, architectural
trellises and more.
• Technical design and fabrication of steel work for landscape
architects Site Office for two of their urban design projects.
• A bar, mezzanine and sculptural lighting installation at the
Japanese restaurant and bar Wabi Sabi Salon in Fitzroy, and later Wabi
Sabi Garden in St Kilda.
• Various entrance features, crests and gates for the schools
Merri Creek Primary, Brunswick South Primary, Brunswick West Primary,
Melbourne German International School and Preston West Primary School.
• Tools, turntables, armatures and other services for sculptors.
Kinetic and other sculpture:
• The delicate equilibrium of being, solo exhibition
at 'Stockroom on Piper' gallery in Kyneton, 2011. Inspired by or representative
of states of being, dancing, lurching, gliding, rippling 'skipping stones',
lurching 'one too many', delicate feathers guiding slender steel arms,
chunky steel balls doing pirouettes...
•Sculpture for the Playground, not the pedestal satellite
event for Craft Victoria's Craft Cubed 2010 festival, featuring in sculpture
and installations oriented to those younger at heart and body, all touchable,
pushable, playable and interactive.
•A solo exhibition Metaforms in June of 2004 at The Foundry.
I showed both small to medium scale steel sculpture, including several
kinetic pieces and some sculptural furniture. The work explored the
divide between the natural and constructed worlds, particularly through
attempts to infuse in the heavy cold industrial material of steel some
of the qualities of form, playfulness and above all, movement of the
natural world.
• Numerous group exhibitions including Toorak Festival of Sculpture
and the Yering Station Sculpture Competition (winner of the People’s
Choice Award).
Large scale outdoor immersive
installations:
• A large scale installation, Material World, in Federation
Square, Melbourne. Commissioned by Melbourne Fringe Festival, with other
key artists (community and theatre) Ian Pidd and Jessica Wilson, Material
World sought to explore and express some of the more personal and intimate
stories of what it is to be a refugee in Australia today. It did this
through the domestic environment of a ‘house’, the private
secure space and sanctuary that we all generally take for granted. Our
Material World house was constructed of thousands of personal objects
of significance to our project participants, with various film and other
installations to discover inside.
• An interactive, kinetic and multimedia installation, Small Revolutions,
in Federation Square, Melbourne. Commissioned by Melbourne Fringe Festival
and designed with other key artists (community and film) Nadja Kostich
and Jeremy Angerson. This project explored relationships between children
and their grandparents and sought to challenges stereotypes associated
with the elderly. Inside a large geodesic dome an immersive and dynamic
environment was created featuring film and audio made with substantial
community input and my primary responsibility, a ‘rolling ball’
sculpture where balls moved along twisting, linked and sometimes unpredictable
paths that served as metaphors for people’s journeys through life.
It had various points of interaction symbolizing key events and meeting
points and moments of delight and excitement but also times for quiet
contemplation and consideration.
• Two installations at WOMAD, Adelaide, 2003.
• Installation of kinetic indoor and outdoor pieces at the Sydney
launch of Earthdance International Peace Festival at Brickworks Park
and Newtown Social Club.
• An outdoor piece for aRtRECYCLE at Incinerator Arts Centre in
Moonee Ponds.
• A very large scale integrated stage, shading and mechanical
sculpture installation at The Outback Eclipse Festival in Lyndhurst,
South Australia, 2002. |