May 8, 2014 | Art, Artworks
His and Hers explores the superficiality of gender identity and cultural expectations of a society focused on a binary classification of sex. Second hand clothing has been re-purposed, embroidered with synthetic hair to reveal the innermost aspects of the human anatomy on the most outer part of our projected being: our clothing....
May 8, 2014 | Art, Artworks
Play With Me is an invitation. The work delves into the levels of intimacy from the sensuous to the grotesque. The skeleton sits naked, devoid of any flesh, skin or organs. The sexual zones of the anatomy we associate with pleasure are missing from its body, it is physically empty. Though unable to feel any form of pleasure or comfort, it still begs the viewer to touch, to experience, to connect, in an almost infantile manner. The bare bones covered with fur lure the viewer with the promise of sensuous contact. Though its body is soft to touch, its temperature is cold, and its bones are hard, it is tantalizing yet wretched to behold. Our experience of intimacy is thus confused. This work attempts to open our awareness of our bodies and the levels to which we experience the pleasure of intimacy. Will you play with me? ...
Apr 6, 2014 | Art, Artworks
Video and gallery for the Object of My Affection installation. Object of My Affection is the first in the Mattress Series. The work explores female sexuality from an aggressively passionate perspective. The act of burning represents destruction but also passion the mattress as the remaining remnant left after a heated moment in time, with the video component exploring the memory of the act – slowed down, distorted and fetishised. The aim was to explore sexuality not as a passive receiver, but as an active peruser....
Dec 11, 2012 | Art, Artworks
Argyle Lane 1 (fireworks) Argyle Lane 2 (Air Conditioning Unit) Argyle Lane 3 Void Noise Concerned with empty spaces and sites of disuse within the urban environment, I have been researching and exploring the conceptual, physical and psychological elements that are found within what I call “Nothing Space”1. My exploration has taken me through car spaces, construction sites, vacant lots and alley ways. Through my analysis and interaction with these spaces I have unearthed their cultural, personal and social significance as familiar sites imbued with the uncanny. I have entered and invaded these spaces that are otherwise avoided or ignored by the general populous, and in the process realised a project concerned with the unearthing and capturing of the ephemeral details of the Nothing Space. Void Noise is a work focussed on a particular urban site I discovered in early July 2012 located in the Rocks, Sydney. Embedded with a tumultuous cultural history, the Rocks is an area where a clashing of lifestyles comes together in discordance; wealthy, poor, young, old, indigenous, non-indigenous. The terraces (old and new) are built side by side with little room for gardens or breathing space. In this urban environment it appears that you are sharing your neighbour’s space regardless of the walls that separate you. The site explored (Argyle Lane) feels like a sewer to the backsides of the homes that crown it. One side of the alley is shear cement and sandstone wall, at around 4-5 meters tall, and the other is lined with the back ends of several closely packed town houses. In my practice this year I have gathered together...
Jun 24, 2012 | Art, Artworks
What is left within a space after our bodies inhabit it? Often we focus on the presence of a body in a space but the absence of that body and the residue that it leaves behind is something entirely different. With my installation Custos Cavae “Guardian of the Hollow”, I look at the car park as a space that signifies the absence of the body. The car park is a space devoid of any human or animal presence. We use the space as storage – car storage – a place to mind our belongings while we are away. To me this creates a sense of emptiness, loneliness and dread; Nothing is the occupant of the car space. What if our presence in this Nothing Space left a residue, the residue of hundreds of people simply passing through, leaving their possessions to be minded by Nothing? Custos Cavae is a work that embodies the human residue within the car space. This work personifies the accumulation of the people who have passed through, briefly inhabiting the space, even if for only a moment. This creature is, in essence, the sole inhabitant of the Nothing Space of the car park. Installed on the basement level of a Kings Cross car park, the work manifests as a hair covered pillar dotted with glass animal eyes of different colours and sizes. From the ceiling to the floor, this hairy monstrosity is a totem of our absence (yet presence) within the space. Custos Cavae is the id of our collective coexistence. It is the becoming of pure energy, of base instincts. It is an instinctual...
May 27, 2012 | Art, Artworks
These impromptu gatherings tie in with my current work for my Honours course. They are site specific collections of the residue I found in the Kings Cross car park, one level below where Alaska Projects is...
