Category: Artchive
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Memory Quilt
Memory Quilt utilised iphonography to explore what made a fleeting moment meaningful and what took it from ordinary to extraordinary. Inspired by heirloom patchwork quilts that told the story of family and ancestry, Memory Quilt was created for “Ordinary (extra)Ordinary”, a group exhibition I co-curated.
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Effigy
A homage to the ancient original effigy of female beauty, the Venus of Willendorf, Effigy was an interpretive piece exploring social beauty standards and how we see ourselves.
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Goddess
Goddess is a series of tribute paintings of ancient Goddess effigies. Acrylics on watercolour paper.
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Building Blocks
Building Blocks was an interpretive book art piece that played with messaging, image, narrative and interactivity to deconstruct the notion of a book. It explored how language and story are used to create our world – physically, virtually and metaphorically.
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Borrowed word
Inspired by the work of experimental writer and artist Kathy Acker, Borrowed Word is a series of poems written using text appropriated from a range of popular media sources. “Horizontal Flux” is a motion graphics piece created using a borrowed word beat poem.
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Pain Trees
Pain Trees is a short animated film representing oppression and the malicious destruction of innocence.
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The Cult of Me
The Cult of Me is a series of oil paintings exploring a contemporary reinterpretation of the Seven Deadly Sins
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The Girl with a Head Full of Words
The Girl with a Head Full of Words was a hand-illustrated experimental book art piece created for a short rhyming poem I wrote for my kids.
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Pavement
Pavement is a photodocumentary series exploring our built environment and the subtle clues and secrets the pavement reveals about culture and how we respond to that urban environment.
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Information Overload
Information overload was an interactive installation piece exploring what would happen if a computer re-arranged itself and could talk…
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com-mun-i-cate
com-mun-i-cate was an artificially created environment wired to subvert communication and explore what would happen if the intended use of communication devices were reversed.
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Strobe
Strobe is a photodocumentary project of Sydney’s underground warehouse party scene in the late 90’s, shot using only strobe lighting
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