Lo-res Life, 2023
Lo-res assemblage and montage works foreground ecological interrelatedness or immanence and the “state of things” in our world. It is virtual and actual as suggested in these intimate scale material properties and relationships. The work is performative and activates a visual and tactile language just outside of coherence. It has the potential for unexpected intersections and readings emerging by accrual. At its core, is the wonder at the resilience of the processes of liveliness and adaptation. Implicitly one might also consider the small-scale dynamics in the works’ composition as having allusions to exponentially bigger contexts. In this way the small local elements and synergies at play offer a suggestion of their influence on the macro-ecologies and large-scale relations in a world at a significant point of political, social, and bio/ecological emergency
(geo/bio/eco/socio) lo-res stammer: (exquisite chemistry) 2023, pinned assemblage on felt,
scourers, pins, rock, leather, earbuds, silicon, cotton thread, cotton mesh, plastic, paper on felt, in acrylic vitrine, 80cm x 65cm x 10cm
(geo/bio/eco/socio) lo-res stammer: (exquisite chemistry), 2023, pinned assemblage on felt, inside acrylic vitrine
to the medulla oblongata, 2023, inkjet photomontage of sculptural assemblage,
88 cm x 94 cm, (Edition of 6)
88cm x 94cm, (Edition of 6)
Heady Mix, 2023, (framed) inkjet photomontage from sculptural assemblage, 84.1cm x 59.4cm
ghost of touch: a chemical pronoun, 2023, inkjet photographic print from sculptural assemblage, 84.1cm x 118.9cm, (Edition of 6)
Buffer, 2022
All things/objects have meanings and associations embedded in them and they have material qualities: shininess, colour, mass that amplify those meanings and shape our interactions with them. Involving material qualities and turns of phrase, these works take ordinary things, images, and words into new associations through montage which is an ideal process for social parody. Composed of everyday objects; buffers or polishing pads that usually spin on surface veneers to make them shine, the works might suggest questions of personal power or power relations and the challenges of finding and inspired way to work collectively. Too often we may feel vacated, stripped bare or empty by systems and their processes that result in public prosaicism, cliché, personality veneer and disappearance. The work invites the possibility that we might reward creativity in difference such that they might also comprise part of a socially exceptional community.
Buffer Series, 2022, mixed media assemblage in the shape as a pocket
Buffer: into the Breach, 2022, (detail) triptych, mixed media assemblage, 40cm diameter
Buffer: if you trust them, 2022 (detail)
Buffer: proving difficult, 2022, (detail)
Softening the Ground (fade out stunt), 2 ways, 2019, mixed media assemblage and pyrography text
Unspeakable Loss, 2021, b/w inkjet photographic print, 84.1cm x 118.9cm, (Edition of 6)
On Turning Back (Hazelwood) 2019, inkjet photographic print,
60cm x 50cm (Edition of 6)
One thing led to another, if ever a thing there was, 2010 mixed media assemblage,
lead wire paint skin felt and gesso
the well, and the drawing, 2011, ink and graphite drawing with photo-collage in spice containers
the breach and the burden, 2007, mixed media assembalge
one unexpected instance, 2011, wood , wheel, drafting film gesso, stolmen,
preserving jars wire basket string, dimensions variable
light house work, 20012, balsa wood ink and gesso drawn images crochet wool, vitrine
score, 2001, false nails, garden matting and light with shade behind window
Colour as Animal: Vermillion, 2010, scourers, gesso and acrylic paint