Light sand scattered to give some definition and texture.Resin and chalk sea, dark sand and pebbles for ground base. Plastic trees for shelter.
Finished product
Tea and sympathy exhibition at the Art Space Urunga.
I have a few whacky ideas in mind. Here’s a teaser.
Items at various stages of construction process.
2021
A new series of small dioramas built on tiles, using found objects and small people designed for model railway enthusiasts.
2020
Certificate IV in Furniture Design (Coffs Harbour TAFE)
Design and make an eating implement. This is a spoon made from Leichhardt pine. Design and make a sleek, suspended structure. Must use four different joints and two different timbers.Design and make a box using dovetail joints with a laminated lid, using two types of wood.Chopping board made from three types of wood and laminated.Three-tiered display stand. Timber leaves made from thin strips of four timbers, glued and laminated then a resin finish applied. Metal legs outsourced for bending and welding to my specsLight made from found objects, led strip, kerfed rosewood, mirrored vinyl, plywood.
2017
All gone now to new homes.
2017 ARTSURUNGA Sculpture in the Park
The Weird Thing … Highly Commended
2016
Bent Vinyl samples
I seem to have embarked on a gentle crusade to rid the world of trashy music on vinyl by trawling op shops and second hand markets for records, which I then turn into idiosyncratic “sculptures”.
Bubbling ideas and smoky afternoons in the clearing in the forest have produced a variety of strange constructs.
Psychology aside … the new owners approved, the walls will be coming down anyway … so I turned the house into a PopUp Art Gallery … recycling, upcycling, indulging my latest obsession with poly foam packaging, masking tape and “Fiddly Bits” aerosol spray paint.
Playing with spray paint and poly foam
Polystyrene foam box for keeping salmon cold.
Filled with spare parts for planet builders
Domestic appliance packaging from suburban street
Old sign from closed hospital
Foam packaging from waste skip
Diorama
based on the lagoon that I looked at every day for a year, wrapped in an old wooden TV cabinet from the 60s
Found objects
Strange creature made from objects found on my daily walks with Freddie the dog … mounted on recycled packaging material painted silver
Seeds and bottle tops
Kentia palm seeds gathered in my garden, juxtaposed with Bionade bottle tops from Berlin drinking spots
toys, feathers, broken arrow, bits of fridge packaging …
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