Exhibited.
Spectro Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, U.K. 1982.
Materials.
Section 1.
Circle: Pigmented sand; carbonised wood; pit fired earthenware vessels (x8) (35cm dia); carbonised grain; seabird skulls/bones; metal blades; Polaroid photograph.Section 2.
Canoe: Steel and Weldmesh framework; clay; straw; steel wire; glass and mirror fragments (x8); Polaroids and associated negative waste; strip lights 40w. (x8).
Section 3
Tents: Wood; bitumen paper; bitumen paint; steel...
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Sculptural installation with multi-channel audio and video components.
Exhibited.
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 1995 as part of the “Sound in Space” National Sound Art Survey exhibition.
Materials.
Timber, audio-visual electronics, low frequency audio drivers.
Dimension.
x4 units @ 3m x 2m x 3m.
Installation footprint 10m x 8m x 3m.
Videotext.
Single channel continuous 45 minutes duration in French/English distributed to x4 output sources.
Soundtext.
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Exhibited.
RMIT project Gallery, Melbourne 2003 as part of “House of the Future”
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The Moores Building Fremantle as part of the Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth 2004.
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The Performance Space as part of “What Survives” 2006.
Medium.
Interactive Sound-Sculpture – plastics, metal and audio-electronics.
Notes ~ Fictionalising Fiction!.
In the beginning;
As a thirteen year old lad I was once left to kick my heels for the day in central London, along with a couple of...
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Exhibited.
The Performance Space, Sydney, 1990.
Materials .
Element #1: - Sax/Motor; Steel, Structural plywood, Flame manifold, Audio equipment.
Element #2: - Laboratory structures (x2); Aluminium, Glass, Bunsen burners, Honey, Gyroscope, Tuning fork, Projection lamps.
Element #3: - Top structures; Aluminium, Motors, Spinning tops, Power supply.
Dimensions.
Element #1: - 3.5m (dia) x 10m.
Element #2: - 2m x 0.5m x 0.3m.
Element #3: - 2m x 2m x 0.5m.
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Exhibited.
Nine Dragon Head Festival, Lake Teachong, Korea 2001.
Helen Lempriere Sculpture Award, Melbourne 2002.
Materials.
Aluminium, Audio and Solar electronics.
Dimensions.
Footprint variable, each unit 0.5 m dia. x 3.5 m.
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Notes.
Meta-Diva is an environmental Sound Sculpture, designed for installation in a wetlands site. The work consists of a grouping of thirty individual units, each incorporating a solar powered digital audio ‘voice’ which...
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Exhibited.
Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney 1997.
Art Gallery of New South Wales 2000/1.
Materials.
Upholstery, Cast rubber, Aluminium, Audio electronics.
Dimensions.
Footprint variable x7 rooms.
Individual units 05.m ~ 2.5m
Notes.
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A singer who sings like a bird is an unproductive worker.
When she sells her song, she is a wage earner or a merchant.
But the same singer, employed by someone else to give
concerts and bring in money, is a productive...
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Exhibited.
The Palmhouse, Royal Botanical Gardens, Sydney 1999.
Materials.
Ceramic, Sourdough, Zinc, Timber, Audio electronics.
Dimensions.
Footprint 19m x 7m x 3m.
Notes.
A botanical garden puts down its roots towards Eden, a small part of paradise planted on ground with a fair claim to being Eden itself. The garden is in effect a confluence of nature and our interpretation and construction of nature. The garden also boasts a subtle array of means to coax, to nurture...
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Exhibited.
Metronom Gallery Barcelona 2003.
Auditori CAM, Alicante, 2003.
Stanford University Gallery 2003.
Materials.
X2 DVD projections, x100 Insect cages, x25 Laboratory stands, x200 Crickets.
Dimensions.
Footprint variable, individual units 2m x 2m x 2m.
Notes.
Host is an installation developed recently at the ‘SymbioticA’ Bio-Art and Technology Laboratory (University of Western Australia) in which an audience of live Crickets attend a lecture concerning the sex...
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La Zona Del Silencio, co-produced with Tony McGregor of ABC Radio, Sydney.
Exhibited.
1. Mapimi Desert and Insurgentes Metro, Mexico City, October 12th 1992.
2. The Biennale of Sydney, 1992/3.
3. ABC Radio (x2 broadcasts, “La Zona” and “La Campana”) February 1993.
Materials.
1. Ships Bell and Radio Transmitter.
2. Mixed media Sound Installation.
3. Radio Broadcast + Audiotape publication.
Dimensions.
1. Theoretically infinite.
2. Overall installation 8m x 9m.
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Exhibited.
Artspace, Sydney 1993, Gallery X, Tokyo 1993, George Fraser Gallery, Auckland 1994.
Materials.
Turbines, mahogany and steel, support system, yacht wire and aluminium, compressor and air control equipment, x4 stools, music stand with “Ionisation” by Edgar Varese, x3 mechanical toys in oil baths on steel supports.
Dimensions.
Installation footprint - 4m x 8m x3m.
Notes.
I live my life in growing orbits, which move out over the things of the world. Perhaps I...
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