Threadbare
2019, video installation, ANU school of Art Gallery
This installation was the culmination of a Master of Philosophy in Visual Arts at the Australian National University. Threadbare investigated the fragmented continuity of memory and the frame-by-frame structure of the moving image. I created three 'video-weavings' and projected them to create an architectural space-a weaving room. I wove time-lapse video of moving house. I had time-lapsed moving house in Sydney and Falconbridge in 2003. Ten years later I found myself moving house again. I realised I'd been moving house every year for the past twenty years, or more. So, I time-lapsed moving house again in 2013 and then in 2019. These time-lapse video sequences were cut into strips and placed over each other, and I left spaces between the threads. With these video fabrics I investigated perception of time and space in the moving image. This work combined my fascination with textiles and flicker film. They became time-passing had frayed into flickering fields of light.
Still Moving
2014, video installation, M16 Gallery.
Time-lapse of moving house, taken over 10 years. I projected this video onto walls of cardboard boxes.
There were three walls of cardboard boxes stacked differently- one neatly stacked, another tumbling down. On the largest wall that was stacked lick brick work, I projected a video of writing the list of houses of the "42 houses I have lived in". On a second neat wall was a diptych of timelapse of moving house in Sydney back in 2003. On a third wall of tumbling boxes was another video diptych of moving house that I had recorded ten years later in 2013. In Threadbare (above) I wove this footage, and also timelapse of moving in 2019. In Threadbare the boxes were removed, and the woven video was projected directly onto the gallery walls; the house, that symbol of stability and permanence, is illusory- its walls are made of woven light.
Matt
2004 Installation and performance, Canberra Contemporary Art Space Manuka.
materials: solar panels, performance, video, speaker wire, wax, speakers, tv screens, pump,
A solar powered installation. Outside the gallery I performed a text with a tennis ball. A camera and mic captured the sound and closeup of my mouth. This sound was relayed into the gallery where it was woven into a mat of clear plastic-coated copper speaker wire, and the video of my mouth was screened separately on a monitor. In the far end of the gallery, on the floor, is a wax self portrait of myself sitting on a bench with the same headset worn in the performance. On a monitor is a video of a similar wax self-portrait melting. The wax sculpture was placed on a solar mirror at the ANU. The mirror focused the suns rays on the sculpture and melted it. outside the gallery the solar panels were mounted on forest green stands to match the paintwork of the gallery and the bench outside. In this installation I aimed to convey the interconnection of self, solar system, and the dispersion of self into voice and matter
a mat woven from speaker wire, a self portrait in wax, video of the scultpure melting
monitors were powered by solar energy
Matt: installation with performance, solar panels
A camera on my mouth, the image on a screen inside the gallery, my voice into speaker wire mat
inside: live video of my performance outside; mouth monitor, voice mat
Plots
materials: video projection (stop motion with plasticine and train tickets), security cameras, tv monitor, body paint, masking tape, objects woven from medication packets, a coat made from train tickets.
Plots is installation of woven objects, video and week-long performance. This work explores commuting, migration of birds, and the process of weaving. I was interested in the thread of one's personal story of identity, the thread of warp and weft, the thread of speaker wire and powerlines. My aim was to make an installation that was a system of disparate yet interconnected things: such as sculptures, performance, woven rug, videos. My intention in creating this installation system was to reflect how our lives, nature, ecological systems, are interconnected and interdependent. I was living in the blue mountains at the time and wove train tickets on the train commute to Sydney. objects woven from detritus, and I wore a coat trimmed with woven tickets. for a week I 'wove' myself into the space and documented the process to create a stop motion animation. At the end of the week, I stepped out the web of lines and wires that I had created that connected objects and technology. This exhibition was part of the series Proximity with two other artists Ellis Hutch and Blaide Lallemand. Image credit: Pling
