Projects

For updates on projects and works in progress.

more windows

I scheduled a series of Instagram posts alongside the exhibition in the gallery this April 2021. It’s not just a practical response to the gallery’s limited opening hours and audience numbers, I’m intending it to be another type of window into the exhibition, in keeping with all the other windows the work refers to. The line of best fit threads through the various posts…

I am here

I am here, I am here, I am here, 2018-2021. An installation of DIY location dots which recorded time spent off-line, and the wordless thoughts, sensations and feelings of remembered spaces which are not captured in digital records of my travels. The first piece was produced during a month-long residency at Arteles Creative Centre in Finland; this became the template for making other location…

a line of best fit II

I installed an installation in an actual traditional gallery space! A line of best fit included a reconstruction of my studio filled with a black ‘line of best fit’ attempting to establish the relations between agents that are non-participants of, and/or only partially perceptible to, networked computational systems. Incomplete art works, food grown in the back yard, unsharable human interiority and the COVID-19 virus…

data as windows

Or windows as data? I’m seeing windows everywhere at the moment. I’ve used the windows of my studio as exhibition spaces during lockdown, using a neighbourhood Facebook group to invite the nearby audience to take a look. I’m in Zoom windows while teaching and while collaborating on projects, and these have also become exhibition spaces too. When I buy materials for my installations the…

more Zoom drawing

By our second semester of online drawing classes we’re starting to take advantage of the opportunities the environment presents, rather than focusing on overcoming its shortcomings. One of these is our use of moving images to explore how to capture the human body in motion. This week we linked our studio practice to the early history of the moving image, including turn of the…

a line of best fit

This project imagined the data generated by ‘WFH’ being used to produce a ‘line of best fit’ to attempt to make sense of my activities in my studio. I worked in the growing installation for several months this year. As it grew it filled the space, changing the way I made art, taught and worked with others. It became an ever-changing backdrop to Zoom,…

zoom drawing

This first drawing class by Zoom was perhaps like most first attempts at life drawing, painstakingly thought out, self-conscious and frustratingly awkward. We quickly learned what worked and what didn’t and, more importantly, discovered that if we let some things go, there were new ways of responding to the moment. The drawings were different, the skills we learned were different and where there were…

location dots

As we approached Australia’s summer of 2019, the winds got hotter, the earth drier, and the grasses bleached white. We heard of the first fires and watched the smoke spreading across the sky, shutting us inside. Over Christmas we first started hearing of a new virus starting to spread like our own bush fires, and by February 2020 it had started to lap against…

negative space

One of the problems of digital networks, argues media theorist Ulises Mejias, is not that they are virtual, it is that they actualise preexisting social structures and perspectives, consequently making it more difficult to visualise or produce alternatives. In my practice I am looking for ways to be aware of what is not present in existing networks. I think of this as a form…

life drawing

When teaching life drawing, I love the opportunity to take the class outside. We think about the context surrounding the figure and how we respond to this through composition. We get to move, use our bodies differently, and get some fresh air and sunshine too!

engaging audiences

While making work about personal data, or using personal data, I wanted to avoid becoming complicit with platforms’ data harvesting practices. I tested strategies for different ways of engaging audiences in work about the presences and absences in digital records in a show at CCAS Manuka. Sound, humour, gallery furniture, puzzles, food and other ideas. One interesting outcome – about half of the audience…