Materials: wood, perspex, lighting, motion sensor and description. This Prince of Wales Hospital (Health Translation Hub) commission is solar powered and motion sensing. A radiological tube is re-presented using a museological aesthetic alongside a child’s interpretation of it, softening the immediacy of the object.
Category: Sculpture
Happy Birthday (2022)
Materials: broken glass, metronome, music box, wax and perspex with internal lighting
untitled (2016)
I asked eight children why we (Australia) were aerial bombing in Iraq. Each reply, transcribed into Morse code, was looped and played through one of a collection of PA speakers mounted onto the exteriors of Buildings 18 and 20 at the Armory galleries Homebush Sydney. Thanks to: Ava, age 11 Giselle, age 2 Mia, age… Continue reading untitled (2016)
Absence and Presence, Part 1 (2017)
An unsuccessful artwork that spans personal loss
Home (2012)
Solar-powered planes of light imply a three-dimensional structure.
Shedding (Inside Out) (2011)
a collaboration with Atanas Djonov
An inner sanctum protected by a meniscus of steel serves as both shelter and platform. From this safe haven the two artists explore their feelings concerning time and distance in an attempt to
Pissoir (2000-01)
a collaboration with Steven Greenwood
Pre-existing urinals in a gallery toilet are sensitised to allow participants (both male & female) to draw using their urine. As the urine passes through a light field it is tracked by computer. The resulting line drawings are traced life-size in real-time on monitors in an adjacent gallery space. […]
Window, Not (dedicated to Howard Arkley) (1999)
This window emits broad spectrum light in an attempt to emulate daylight. Like a real window it changes with the fluctuating light of the day, giving an artificial impression of the world outside, using light as a medium. Produced with the assistance of the UNSW Solar Research Centre, this work involved the construction of an… Continue reading Window, Not (dedicated to Howard Arkley) (1999)
Grid (1995)
Eight infra-red detectors are placed in two rows of four at right angles to one another as shown thus forming an invisible grid. The normally open contact on each detector switches five volts which, when closed through interruption of the beam, feeds a computer input (i,o) card. The computer, in turn, is equipped with a… Continue reading Grid (1995)
Hours Remaining in the Life of Allan Giddy (1994)
Hours Remaining in the Life of Allan Giddy is a solar-powered, digital, backwards-counting machine. I calculated how many hours I would have left to live, based on the average life span of a New Zealand male born in the 1960s, then programmed this information into my small machine and set it running. I took care… Continue reading Hours Remaining in the Life of Allan Giddy (1994)