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Story Scapes

This coming November begins my residence with Melbourne City Library at the Kathleen Syme Community Centre. Working with their Young Exhibitors Program to create a sculptural installation for the Dockland's Library.

For more information about the program and to sign up check out the blog and the library website below:


BLOG

http://storyscapes.blogspot.com/

LIBRARY

http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/MelbourneLibraryService/WhatsOn1/Pages/SpecialEvents.aspx

Return to Oz

Now back from Italy and a brief trip to Hong Kong, I am continuing work on a new series along with preparations for Lorne Sculpture Biennale 2016. 

Come March 12th - April 4th, I will have a large sculptural work on display beach front in Lorne, along the sculpture trail. April 3rd sees me being the closing performance for the show, entitled “Free-Dumb”

Below are images of current studio efforts and the location of the future sculpture “Shed” for Lorne Sculpture Biennale 2016.

Engraved Mud-Brick with Bone Shavings Inlay

Laying out engraved bones for interactive poetic labyrinth "still it's time" 

Studio day shaping and embroidering steel. 

like a virgin

My first time to Italy and i sure did get lucky. From David, to Donatello, to the Specola Museum and believe you me, i was able to catch the Venice Biennale. 

Eating and drawing my way through each city, churches, wine, churches, food, churches, art churches yes there is a re-accruing theme, god only knows why. 

What an honour to have attended the 2015 venice biennale, “all the worlds futures” both the Gardinni and the Arsenale where fabulous and congrats to all the artists and curators involved. If you are heading there here is a quick review.

took my time:

japan / australia / south korea / france

walked right through:

america / brittian / russia / germany 

Below are some pictures from the trip

Firenze  

Hangar biacocca- Milano 

Japan Pavillon @ Venice Biennale 

Specola Museum -Firenze 

Free-Dumb

“Free-Dumb”

These works originated as a poem, which is becoming a sculpture scape and will be used in a performance work when completed. The poem is embroidered onto various panels of discarded wood and is then arranged in a water way as myself and another performer move about reciting the poem.

New Poem

Free-Dumb

This freedom which you speak of 

Is the right of a privileged few

Whose freedom is equally askew 

How freely they talk of how free they be

Yet shackles shackle their every plea

As This freedom

Is not free

For how costly it can be

no not free 

In fact Far from free

And more likely to be

A sort of Free-dumb

Yes Free-dumb

For freedom

Is free from

Free of agony free from pain

Free of judgement and disdain

Free from right and wrong

Free of ego’s song

Free of pleasure and joy

Free from dualities ploy 

Free from mind and heart

Free from the politics which tare apart

Free from verse and free of tense

Free from choice and consequence

Free of the perverse and reflective

Free of the individual perspective

Free of religion, the alter and skew

Free of the truth in our point of view

Free from homicide of genocide

Free from the lie that we decide

Free of belief and doubt

Of slow, fast in, and out

For freedom is free

And should cost nothing to be

Free from technology free from coal

Free hands     free soul

Free from listening to the demand

For Freedom is free from, do you understand?

For we are not free

As we are and yet barely be

For freedom

Is free from 

Free from guilt and shame

Free of responsibility and blame

Free from secrets and tears

Free of lies and fears

Free from loneliness and sex

Free of wanting what’s next

Free from the past future and now

Free of what, when, why and how

Free from the riots of people

Free of the control from a steeple 

Free from answers and decisions 

of questions and revisions

Free to think and right as we please

Free of the ills of life’s disease 

Yet in all this freedom that we voice

We are not free not even in choice

For freedom is dumb

Like An amateur wildly beating a drum

Freedom is dumb

Freedom is dumb 

Free dom is dumb

Free dom is dumb

For with it we have created and given

The tyranny of which we live in

The Freedom to make hurtful speech

Freedom to take and endlessly leech

Freedom to point our finger

& criticise the singer

Freedom to cast hate

And foolishly think we need tolerate

Freedom to spout as if we’ve the truth

Freedom to shout from a snipers booth

A Freedom where love can be torn

Freedom to praise and quickly scorn

Freed to be and act malevolent 

And disregard the benevolent

this freedom which we tell all to be

is an attempt , a guess a theory

a forgotten fallacy

lost at sea

well, don’t you see

that freedom 

is to be free

and to be free

is to no longer be

so go ahead for here’s the knife

and end this strife

for don’t you understand 

what is being said by I, the white man

that free-dumb is not free from

for freedom 

is free from

free from rights and the biased view

free from the dream and what is true

free is freeing me and freeing you

Products and projects

From and for Lorne, Victoria

Working on a few proposals or the lorne sculpture prize along with some exciting new material. I found this amazing seaweed at the beach in lorne and began to do a few tests. My favorite of which is featured below, embroidered seaweed scrolled up into these ancient texts lost at sea. 

Lorne and beyond

Ventured down the great ocean road to visit Lorne and scope out the area for my application to the Lorne Sculpture Biennale 2016.

Returning with photos and a bit of skin like seaweed for some new ideas. 

Embroidered and rolled for the "dead sea scrolls" 

"#re-integration"

After de-installing the work "#integration" i repurposed the install for South of Johnston. Below are the results which incorporate other woven elements as well as a second piece. 

#integration

Above is the video element for the woven video installation #inegration.

What Goes Up Must Come Down...

and lucky enough for me to get another go around. De-installed the work at Melbourne City Library and then quickly re-purposed the work for a small install at my mate's cafe. South of Johnston in Collingwood.

Here are a few peaks from the de/re/install.

 City Library

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SOJO (re-install)

Here is the full weave in all its fullness... 6 x 7m...

This work rested across the stairwell across from the main installation and could be seen upon entering on the lower level of the library.

WHITE NIGHT MELBOURNE 2015

With over 400,000 people attending this years White Night festivities it certainly was mayhem on the evening, though Melbourne City Library with "Biblioasis" provided shelter and a more intimate approach to the chaos of the streets.

8 pm doors open for the past hour and the steady stream of viewers begin...

9pm the sun is fully set and the video pops even more on the woven surface....

10pm people continue to enjoy using the UV lamps and uncovering more pathways....

5am on the people continue to enjoy the visual, tactile and interactive aspects of the work....

Coming down to the wire as installation begins tomorrow for the White Night Melbourne 2015 @ Melbourne City Library.

“#integration”  is a visual and tactile expression of our social fabric… A parallel to the manner in which we as people interlace, from the largest of urban environments to the smallest of human interactions.  – RFK

Scroll down for images of the work in process and sneak peaks as instalment continues:

a rural setting

End of February brings a mad rush of excitement and work. Studio moved to its new rural location and the process begins for a new installation to be featured at White Night Melbourne 2015. The Melbourne CityLibrary as asked for an installation in their upstairs gallery. The below images give you a sense of both the new studio space as well as a look at what the coming work for White Night.

"a Present for a Future from a Past"_screen sonnet & written poem

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                                          a Present for a Future from a Past

                                          here it comes, this most formidable
                                          and unforgivable present.
                                          a swift and timely gift
                                          that fading clock which ticks
                                          forged in a past
                                          this unknown future cast

                                          for its time that arrives ahead
                                          and time which lies with us in bed
                                          still its time that is the thief
                                          still its time that steals grief
                                          still its time that lessons the might
                                          still its time that brings the night
                                          still its time that cannot be caught
                                          and time which can't be bought
                                          still its time that teaches
                                          and time that leeches
                                          still its time that binds us
                                          still its time that finds us
                                          still its time which cannot hide
                                          still its time that remains by our side
                                          still its time that is space
                                          and time which we face

                                          still its time that keeps our breathe
                                          and time which seals our death
                                          still its time
                                          and time again
                                          still its time
                                          and time my friend
 

"a Present for a Future from a Past"

A series of works integrating various forms and media emulating life, defined as "anything with the condition for living and death". Performance and sculptural works are involved in these five to ten year process in which the works will oscillate between the two states of life. Alive through audience participation in the burial of the sculptures, poetry, video and continual evolution within the earth. In memory the works come and go as time advances towards its prescribed unearthing or death.  

Owners of the works are equipped with keys to  the works, written GPS coordinates (ie 25.3450° S, 131.0361° E) as well as a date informing them when, if they choose, they can excavate their work. Below are images of the sculptural works and their burial, which occurred during exhibiting on August 24th 2014. The above post includes other forms these works have taken, a screen sonnet and a poem entitled  "a Present for a Future from a Past".

"a Present for a Future from a Past_2024"

 steel, tin, paint, copper, paper, calcium phosphate and calcium carbonate

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"a Present for a Future from a Past_2024"

glass, paper, tin, steel, copper, poly-thread

East End Summer Residence

"big red"

steel, copper, wood, chemical abrasions

 

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"99 pages of poems on the wall 99 pages of poems, take one down pass it around 

98 pages of poems on the wall"

*an interactive work which participants chose a poem from the wall to read the chair and later share.

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"tolerance"

steel, copper with embroidery and chemical abrasions

 

**commissioned gate for Zeller Estate 

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"how is"

steel, copper, tin, found object

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"text your"

steel, copper, wood  

 

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 "tight domain"

steel, copper, tin

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"tyrant"

wood, paper, steel, copper, polyurethane thread, natural stain polyurethane

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 "weave_study1402"

wood, steel, paint