Elsewhere: The Road Movie - The floor and furniture in a room are clad with broken crockery. The TV endlessly plays a video of a moving road surface. The chair invites but it is dangerous. A large ceiling fans hums over head. The doors are closed but a stream of crockery pieces appears to squeeze in and flow onto the floor. There are no windows.A vision of excesses.
The installation was made during a residency at Queensland University of Technology. A version was also shown at the IMA (Institute of Modern Art), Brisbane. |
Metabolism - a collection of red pencils appear to run like a flow of blood from a hole in a walled up chimney, to a hole in the floor. Emanating from the chimney is the sound of a boys' classroom and a lesson on the human body and metabolism. The artwork refers to the "construction" of masculinity in a typical early 20th century school. The school boys passage through the system.
Place specific at PICA (Perth Institute of Contemporary Art), Western Australia. A converted boys' school. |
What is Remembered... - images of everyday objects were projected onto several layers of gauze (used for mosquito screens). The light from the projection was gradually absorbed by the layers so that no tracce of the image was cast beyond them. The ghostly 3D effect - "a poor person's holograph". From each corner of each screen, stabilizing pieces of bamboo were weighted down by stones.
The work was produced while artist-in-residence at Chiang-mai University, Thailand. |
The Cloud Machine - a series of of cut out white clouds travel slowly across a blue sky. They dart to the outside to circumnavigate the painted surface only to return to that slow passage from one side to the other.
A fractional horsepower geared motor operates behind while the clouds are attached by clear acrylic arms to a bicycle chain supported by corner cogs. The wooden jarrah frame and motorized system was fabricated and assembled by Michael Brown. Private collection. |