This video portfolio shows a selection of works and projects 2002 – 2012
little weeds: small acts of tenderness and violence, curated by Lisa Harms and took place at Format Space Adelaide during March 2010. I exhibited a project called the small pleasure of throwing something at a wall, knowing it will break. The work involved a map and a number of sculptural paste ups around the streets and venues of Adelaide. Some the works can still be found at the Format Collective and in the beer garden of the Grace Emily Hotel. More info about the project is on the conservatory project website.
after the goldrush was at SASSA (South Australian School of Art) Gallery during July 2009. It was an installation, curated by Lisa Harms and including works by Lisa Harms, Joe Felber and myself.
The works I contributed were oilflowers video, (downward projected video on plinth) and oilflowers objects, made from plaster, fake flowers and enamel.
A second version using similar enameled flower objects was shown as no use in crying at Crate59, Cairns as part of the Wallpaper PPL in Urban Accidents show. .. also, watch out for the enameled flowers on streets around Adelaide.
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Palmer Sculpture Biennial showcases Australian and International artists creating sculpture in response to landscape. For the 2010 exhibtion I collaborated with Renate Nisi and Kate Morkunas to create Stone Farming.
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My Favorite Australian was a co production of the ABC an the National Portrait Gallery. I was commissioned to create a video Portrait of Kirsty Carter. The work was shown at the opening of the new National Portrait gallery in Canberra, December 2008, was shown on ABC2 and can be watched on the ABC website.
Visit the ABC website to watch the work
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The Belair Witch Project was an installation developed for seedling art space in the Adelaide Hills.
This work was a response to the seedling art space site. When Zoe and the other Seedling folks cleaned out the space, they found it full of old beer bottles. As a teenager growing up in the Belair area (full of these strange pockets of woods) I remember that action finding a space of your own (abandoned shed, small corner of the world) where you were neither defined by being at school or at home (growing uncomfortable in both places). For those who don’t know seedling art space, it is a small hut, in old plantation woods, somehow preserved within a suburb of Adelaide, Australia. I built a beer bottle forest within the shack in the woods; a monument to the strange forest of adolescence. Around the walls I included the maps with bird cut away, henpecked and reminding me of lost things.
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Palmer Sculpture Biannal, 2008. Palmer is an excellent artist run site specific sculpture exhibition- put together by Greg Johns and lots of other volunteers. The Edge of the land was made with found objects and fixings.
images of Edge of the Land are currently touring Country Arts SA Galleries with an exhibition called Hinterland.
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Sweeping and Sleeping was a installation work with Kate Morkunas, made for Downtown Artsapce in it’s new home on Waymouth St. The installation explore in habitation – I showed objects and video in the back space.
This is some of the video used in the projection.
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These images are from a work called for scientists and other story tellers. The work was an installation for the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, during the Adelaide Fringe Festival.
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Palmer 2006
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Further Doings was an exhibition I had with Roy Ananda, Julia Robinson, Kate Morkunas and Naomi Williamson at the old downtown artspace on Hindley St. (remember when it was the old Rollerrink!?) in 2003.
she took a deep breath was my work from the show, made from 200 dandelion heads trapped in perspex boxes on wire stands. The photo was taken by Mick Bradely.
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Sum Oil Works
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