VIDEO ARTIST/ PROJECTION DESIGNER/ PERFORMANCE FILMMAKER
Box of Birds / Stalker invited me to work on educational catering company Indigiearth's latest food experience, WARAKIRRI (to grow) for VIVID Sydney 2026. Using 12 projectors in a surround layout in Bay 19 Carriageworks, mapped by Jordan East, I made a series of composites from my archives dating back to 2011 from desert, rainforest, central and tropical Australia to match the six course…
Murtala in Gelambang Raya Between two projects, Sisa-Sisa and Garrigarrang Badu, bookending Sydney Festival, I was in a three month, 7 days a week process leaping between morphing oil and water animations on perspex, building bamboo and dyed screens, rigging, Procreate digital drawing, Qlab programming, environmental research and videography. The weather was physically challenging, based in…
For two weeks, performer and artist WeiZen Ho and I were based in the Rex Cramphorne Studio, Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Sydney, exploring the tentative nature of performance video making. WeiZen inhabited several outdoor and indoor spaces across the wintery USYD campus in the pursuit of phenomenology of space and how time based visual capturing of body in space can be addressed…
Sometimes a project takes six years to develop and sometimes it is never finished because it is a continuing cultural practice. Preparing Ground, intiated by Marilyn Miller, Jasmin Sheppard and Katina Olsen, begins as a community cultural development of dancer/choreographers going back to their country to try to redeem and repair the effects of colonisation on the land and people. Preparing Ground…
GAPU NGUPAN I was very privileged to have ten days to film and design projections in Taiwan and a week in North East Arnhem Land, guided by traditional owners from each country for the large scale project GAPU NGUPAN (Chasing the Rainbow), produced by Kath Papas. This work uses a large amount of drone and macro videography to depict natural environments and forms layered with masked Procreate line…
Inspired by Carl Sagan’s words on the perspective of the Earth from the Voyager in 1990 “ There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceit than this distant image of our tiny world” Box of Birds / Stalker conceived a multi faceted, 8 projector performance installation at Carriageworks with myself (video/ photographic animation) and Matt Hughes (Madmapper/ Unity). Eight…
DRAWSPACE Group show in Newtown curated by Gary Warner and Amanda Solomons. Revisiting old haunted spaces of Newtown reviving and reconciling with the memories of the area and troubled share house days. I made six light drawing video composites on screens: Beauty Poverty Desire, Environmental Strategies, Reality Just a Subset of a Dream , Gravity Wake and Sleep Loops, Right Angles Dead Ends and…
SWIM, directed by Andrea James with lead performer Dani Sibosado and writer Ellen Van Neerven. I designed projections for an immersive story where the worlds consisted of natural waters from Yugumbeh country and the hypereal brightness of summer swimming pools, abstractions of water but shot on country tracing back to pre-colonial sovereignty of water. Many ways of using water, in fear, to atone…
Tyrel Dulvarie - The Other Side of Me I was invited by NT Dance Company to film in East Arnhem Land and make projections for an existing dance work (The Other Side of Me, choreographer Gary Lang) on a young Aboriginal boy stolen by a foster family to England, who took his life in prison. The work was compiled through a collection of letters sent from prison about his grief from never being able to…
At The End of The Land - Talya Rubin These three words connect to the last three projects; AT THE END OF THE LAND (PICA Premiere, Talya Rubin), PREPARING GROUND (HOTA industry showing, Blakdance with Marilyn Miller, Katina Olsen and Jasmin Sheppard) and COMPLICATION OF LYREBIRDS (INDance, Sydney Dance season, Jasmin Sheppard). Parallel universes are offering insight into our projected futures,…
Energy Reticulations, an artist commission from the City of Canada Bay on display at the Digital Gallery at The Connection Rhodes where I researched and mapped the pathways of renewable electricity supply from macro to micro scale of regional NSW, to greater Sydney, to local Rhodes, with the aim of unveiling the reality of “City of Canada Bay goes 100% Renewable”. Drawing maps with copper wire and…
A residency at Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder Trondheim, offering a blissful experiment for 6 weeks on the second floor of Mellomveien St - “the middle way”. It was a time to consolidate a 7 year practice of light drawing, spatial inhabitation and interaction to see what the future of it could be. The answer was: its endless. A human experiences a place/event for the first time and responds with…
There is the original, sensory Dream, only the person who dreamt it knows, then there is the telling of it, how to put it in words and what is missing in words and what can’t be expressed, then the translation of those words in an artist's interpretation which is re-configured in their own minds, this happens for the dreamer and artist alike, then the attempt to illustrate or in any way crudely…
Oigåll Projects, Gertrude St Projection Festival ~ Panic Embrace is the work originally made for Blik Blik, modified for Oigåll Projects - now in the Gertrude Street Projection Festival, 122 Gertrude at Fitzroy Melbourne, Wurungeri country. Lots of events, talks and a street party. This is the second time projecting on hardened second hand clothing used as an expressionist canvas but the balance…
Taking time out at BigCi in February (Bilpin International Ground for Creative Initiatives) to work on refined animation of natural forms, developing the concept of a fool's paradise by taking objects from their natural habitat and turning them into anthropomorphic, fantasy reformations which still tell something of their source, the stories of natural cycles and systems but through a colonised,…
A remote, three channel video projection project with new wave Korean musicians, Noreum Machi on their new work Heoteun Sori: Corea until Now presented on February 27 at the National Theatre Of Korea. It was my first international project since Covid and a very refreshing collaboration, seeing again through the world’s eyes and a reminder that making large scale live art works is pure hard work!…
A dance film with GOGI Dance Collective (Alicia Harvie, Ashleigh White and Viviane Frehner) based in the Gold Coast and commissioned by the Bleach Festival (PLACEMAKERS - Rosie Dennis). A three channel dance video with s imple structures of curvatures illustrated topographically of body movement inspired by the curvature and gestures of lawn bowls. Curvatures showing the inclination for change of…
"Annabelle - HD video still" T here is what gets seen in art and what audiences don’t know about the process it took to get there. There are essential processes and they are different for each artist. People see the end result but don’t know what the journey to that point was, though they may sense it. What is always aimed for is the opening flower coming from points of madness to sanity, whilst…
Sonic Sites, Bundanon Trust (May 2021) Pre-lockdown in NSW we squeezed in two quick projects; SONIC SITES at Bundanon Trust with Ensemble Offspring and MY BOVINE HEART with performer Regina Heilmann at University of Wollongong. Both projects interlinked through a state of cognitive dissonance; Bovine Heart focussing on meat eating whilst loving the soul of animals and Sonic Sites being an epic…
SYDNEY FESTIVAL 2021 - Wesley Enoch's final Sydney Festival. I had the privilege of working with dancers Jasmin Sheppard and Kaine Sultan Babij on their personal stories of assimilation and reflections of home in Takalaka and Arrende country. Both have extensive history with Bangarra and are now establishing their own choreographic languages with other media; evocative voice overs, highly detailed…
Conceived by performance maker Alan Schacher with WeiZen Ho, Katia Molino, Philip Mills and others, SKELTER SHELTER was a video experiment made with the assistance of the Blue Mountains City of Arts Trust exploring the picnic rock shelters in Katoomba which were built and designed by Tom Adam in the 1930's. Picnickers chose a cold, rainy day to have an outing inside one of the faux rock grottos…
De Quincey Co: Para Parra 2020 Though it seems like hardly any live performance has been made in 2020, it has been one of the busiest in contingency planning and re-modelling. Strategising new funding platforms for live events, engaging with ways live acts are digitally perceived - rethinking virtual presences and how they can be equivalent to live energy, how they can become pushed out of…
PANIC EMBRACE, made for BLIK BLIK 2020 festival in the Czech Republic metamorphosed into a 360VR work during the lockdown (see link below) after a successful installation in DEPO2015 Pilsen. It was made by projecting onto a collection of eight suspended frames of disassembled pieces of clothing in a 10 metre wide array to increase dimensional perception of each item being affected by the…
Brian Fuata in Latai Taumoepeau's LAU MANU (2021) 360 VR tests with Carlos Gomes (Theatre Kantanka) supported by Create NSW 360 Vision to experiment with VR in the doco-animation form, researching different recollections and experiences of migrants and stories of their children, one generation on. We are developing a model for working with different communities based on written stories from…
A retrospective of some of the video drawing works I have made over the last few years on artist residencies, beginning with the phenomena of Iceland’s everyday activities (2015) to cubist/fracturing of space/time in Czech Republic (2018) to the blind explorations of Piranesi staircases over Parramatta Road, Leichhardt (2019). This exhibition was a scanning of different ways of perceiving and…