iews of the Padme Installation at MacQuarie University 2010. Padme is a solar powered digital audio floating sculpture that is activated by wave motion and by water birds nudging the antennae-like motion sensing ‘whiskers’ that radiate from the work. A short radio interview about the installation. A favourite with the wildlife. Slight movement activated […]
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on August 31, 2010in environmental project, Projects, public arttags: environmental project, public art, sound sculpture
New York Drawings
on January 16, 2010in Drawings, Projects

This is ancient history – a series of drawings made in New York during 1988. The studio was just around the corner from Pearl Paint the extraordinary art materials store trading in larger than life versions of everything including paper – so why not make a series of drawings in encaustic wax and pigments on […]
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on September 7, 2009in Installation, Projectstags: installation, interactive new media, sound sculpture
I’m a Nomad not a Drifter, being Adrift is of course a different kettle of fish, as it implies an active surrender to the vagaries of the elements, be they maritime or psychological ~ I usually go for both! The Adrift project was conceived and realised for the Memory Flows exhibition at the CarriageWorks in […]
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on August 5, 2009in arts and science, environmental project, Installation, Projects, Research and Development Writingtags: arts and science, environmental project, interactive new media, social history

M.A.R.I.N. made its debut at ISEA2009 Belfast in August 2009. This first expedition, the “Irish Sea EcoLocated Residency”, focused upon Littoral cultures: how marine ecologies close to human settlements are perceived by scientists and local communities, and how our art & science research team will introduce new cultural strategies to interlace them. The MARIN vessel […]
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on December 10, 2008in Projectstags: environmental project, public art, sound sculpture
Zephyr ~ an Æolian kinetic sculpture for the Geraldton foreshore. Methinks, it should have been impossible Not to love all things in a World like this, Where e’en the Breezes of the simple Air Possess the power and Spirit of Melody! Coleridge, The Æolian Harp. Zephyr is playfully named after Zephyrus the Greek god of […]
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on June 8, 2008in Projectstags: arts and science, sound sculpture
ioSonics is a significant development of former prototype works that investigate the morphology of microscopic marine organisms. Installed at the Western Plains Museum and Art Gallery 2008. A short introduction filmed by Julia Burns. he rational and the fantastical: the morphology of Nigel Helyer, by Gail Priest. Despite Star Trek’s propagandist efforts for space […]
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on June 7, 2008in Projectstags: radiophonic, social history
uring 2008 Nigel held the ABC Radiophonic Fellowship and developed a project entitled GhosTrain that deals with memories (and amnesia) surrounding Sydney’s Eveleigh Railyards. The first stage of the GhosTrain project created a series of short Radio Broadcasts and a Podcast website focused upon the Redfern Locomotive & Eveliegh Carriage Works. The project addressed the […]
Read More →Run Silent Run Deep
on June 7, 2008in arts and science, environmental project, Installation, interactive new media, Projectstags: arts and science, environmental project, interactive new media, sound sculpture
igel undertook an Artist in Residence at The Marine Mammal Laboratory (Tropical Marine Science Institute) of the National University of Singapore; developing a project for ISEA2008 exhibited at the National Museum of Singapore, July ~ August 2008. Run Silent, Run Deep creates a multi-vocal and multi-cultural AudioPortrait of Singapore – in particular the area around […]
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on October 23, 2007in environmental project, Projects, public arttags: arts and science, environmental project, public art
new work “Transformer” has been installed at the UnderCliff Vineyard in Wollembi alongside “Spinner” which remains in-situ from last year. y approach to the sonic domain has always been informed by a Sculptor’s perspective which emphasises the experiential nature of sounds, linking them to the dynamic, material events that produce them and situating them within […]
Read More →WA Marine Facility ~ Ondes
on February 17, 2007in Projects, public arttags: environmental project, public art, sound sculpture
Ondes Ondes is a public art commission for a new Marine facility at Henderson WA. The work is comprised of three elements; an outdoor kinetic work, consisting of six counter-balanced needles which interact with the wind; a series of interactive biomorphic sculptures that react to human movement via changes in their internal lighting and a […]
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- Freeze Frame
- Scribbly Gum Suites
- Virtual talking in 2020
- Sonus Maris
- The Oratorio for a Million Souls
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- LandFall
- The Deluge Ark(ive)
- A Dissimulation of Birds
- The Biological Mixer
- Landscape/Portrait
- Heavy Metal
- CultCult – audio illumination from the Ocean
- BioLogging Retrofit
- BioPods_V2 The Nebuchadnezzar Suite
- NomansLanding
- BioPod
- Eine Kleine GeneMusiK
- Songs from the UnderWorld_v3
- Architecture for Bees; Bees for Architecture
- Bristle
- Breathless; Take a Deep Breath
- Public Art concepts
- Ars Memoriae Mexicana
- Float like a Butterfly; Sting like a Bee
- Supereste ut Pugnatis (Pugnatis) ut Supereste
- Songs from the UnderWorld_V2
- WYSSA – All my love darling
- Songs from the UnderWorld
- BeeWork
- Milk and Honey
- Weeping Willow
- VoxAura
- CrayVox
- Bio_Logging and Under the IceCap
- Radiolarians
- New Host_V6
- Law of the Tongue
- VoxAEther
- Padme
- New York Drawings
- Adrift
- EcoLocated
- Zephyr II
- BioSonics
- GhosTrain
- Run Silent Run Deep
- Sculpture in the Vineyards
- WA Marine Facility ~ Ondes
- AudioMaze
- Quint de Loup II
- The Wireless House
- Talking Stick
- Syren for Port Jackson
- Factory Spirit.
- Swarm
- What Survives
- Spinner
- Lotus
- KellerRadioActive at IASKA
- Magnus Opus
- Preaching to the Converter
- Virtual Spirit
- Models
- AudioNomad + Syren
- Theorem
- LifeBoat
- An Unrequited Place
- Voyages from Eden to Utopia; Hercules
- The Transit of Venus
- Toll
- A Symphony for Other Cultures
- The Lament
- Sonic Landscapes
- Siren Song
- Seed
- Ship to Shore
- Oracle
- Re-Entry Vehicle; Natural Science in the Spirit World
- Naughty Apartment
- Mute in TalkTown; the sweet warm breath of science
- Meta-Diva
- Metamorphoses
- Leaven
- La Zona del Silencio
- Host
- Gyro-Diva
- Haiku
- Everything’s Nice with American Rice
- Silent Forest
- Drift
- Dual-Nature (Ebb and Flow).
- Din
- Die Melodie der Welt; Bringing Home the Bacon
- Aura
- Sample Content Of Radio Works as MP3
- Big Bell Beta
- Din: Ding, Dang, Dong
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