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Twinkie (20th century), 2012
30x14x14cm, mixed media
This work is an artifact for a fictional future, my intention is to ask the question: what will be left behind if the world, as we know it, disappears and how would that reflect on who we were.
In the context of the ClimARTe festival, new questions arise: is this piece a memorial for a world that was lost or an almost forgotten memory of the wasteful society we gave up?
Home Sweet Home, 2012
Recovered objects, dimensions variable
(installation shot taken at ‘For we are young and free’ exhibition, toyota spirit gallery, 2012)
“I grew up with my two brothers in the classic suburban Australian house and it was the marks, holes and dents left on the walls over time that reinforced our connection to home. At 21 I suffered a Spinal injury and we had to sell that house, as it wasn’t suitable for a wheelchair, it was bought by a developer who intended to knock it down and put up townhouses. Before that happen I broke in and removed the hall way closet door frame where my parents marked our heights every year as we grew up. By transplanting that door frame into the gallery and inviting visitors to mark the gallery wall this work comments on the trend to knock down and rebuild that seems, simultaneously, to be a result of the ‘Australian dream’ as much as its destroying the memory of dreams past, and how something as simply as a mark on a wall, or a person, can carry so much weight and significance. ”
Olfactory: Terra Australis, 2017
Mixed media installation, Glass canisters, lycra, natural and synthetic scents, and assorted media.
“Olfactory: Terra Australis” is a reinterpretation of the “Australian Dream Consultancy” project by Kathleen Linn and Stephanie Peters presented as part of the YAH festival.
By presenting iconic scents taken from the artist’s own Euro-Australian centric experience of Australian culture, the work is deigned to trigger diverse memories, emotions, and associations, as a means to explore contemporary Australian culture and conflicting notions of the ‘Australian dream’