Domesticated

Domesticated is an exhibition curated by Lesley Giovanelli of work by Will Cooke, Robyn Donoghue, Beata Geyer, Anne Graham, Bettina Hill, Sione Falemaka, Steven Fasan, Mim Fluhrer, Lesley Giovanelli, Pip Giovanelli, Francesca Mataraga, Sarah Newall, Elizabeth Pulie, Margaret Roberts, Nuha Saad, Andrew Simmons, Toni Warburton and myself.

The exhibition runs until Sunday 14 December.

Articulate project space - 497 Parramatta Rd, Leichhardt.

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Spatial Order III

Pen, ink and gouache on paper.

The continuation of these geometric figures has become somewhat of an obsession. Many rough drawings are made prior to the identification of a new form. 

These works on paper have stimulated an evolution in my approach to painting.

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Sherbet Moon

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Watercolour, ink and pencil on paper, with digital reflection.

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TURN/ FOLD/ FLIP

TURN/ FOLD/ FLIP is an exhibition of work made in collaboration with Ciaran Begley, and Consuelo Cavaniglia.

The work was developed both individually and in dialogue. Consuelo and I working on painted book-like forms, and Ciaran producing the folded plywood structures.

It has been a great experience working collaboratively, and the outcomes of the work have highlighted our shared concerns of geometry, structure and space.

TURN/ FOLD/ FLIP will be on show until 18/ 10/ 04 at Archive_ 5 Eliza Street Newtown.

Quotients and Remainders

Ink and acrylic on board, with fluorescent gaffing tape.

This painting was made from the offcuts of a previous painting on board, and being a fragment of the larger form, it's edges follow the same underlying geometries.

Working with these offcuts is a process similar to collage, with the pieces there ready to be arranged. This allowed for a sense of spontaneity and experimentation, that resulted in this open ended, unexpected outcome.

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Video 1:01

iPhone 4.

These short experimental videos rely on the ubiquitous presence of my mobile phone.

Having the phone with me, almost at all times, allows me to record phenomena as I see it with a casual immediacy.

By continuing in this practice, and imposing a vague set of rules (pertaining to movement, framing, and duration), the necessary time or opportunity is given for a sensibility to emerge.

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Pass It On

Pass It On is a group exhibition at Verge Gallery, featuring work from Sydney College of the Arts students and alumni. The exhibition will include Anna McMahon, Isobel Parker Philip, Jess Bradford, Richard Kean, THEnguyens, Del Lumanta, Carla Liesch, and myself.

I will be showing my Instagram work Scum Street Scum. A sixty page, limited edition book of the work will be available from the gallery.

Thanks to curator Siån McIntyre for all the help during install.

Opens July 30, from 6pm.

Beams

Ink and acrylic on board, with fluorescent gaffing tape.

This prototype amalgamates previously disparate elements into a unified whole. The thinking behind units like Threshold, and Spacial Order converge naturally through drawing.

The drawings became a diagram for construction, and through this process a bifurcation towards a new series is made.

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Gel Geode

Transparency (cellulose acetate), sticky tape, plastic shopping bag, and scented styling gel.

This geodal structure is a prototype, a continuation of the series through variations in form, and material. The polyhedral shell is constructed from 72 transparent triangles, with the vertices highlighted by a gel that sits between the walls and the lining.

A platonic solid, this icosahedral figure is an entity from the metaphysical realm of the Forms. The abstract structure is an object of the mind revealed, like a shared hallucination. A form constant, one of several geometric lattice patterns, which usually only emerge during altered states of consciousness.

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Spatial Order II

Pen, ink and gouache on paper.

Drawings that started as plans intended for paintings, have become independently interesting. These extruded structural forms, iterations in a serial process, follow an evolving system of rules.

Balancing complexity as it builds, I can see future patterns.

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Zeno's Pyramid

Ink and acrylic on board.

The first in a series, these paintings on shaped board use the polygons edge to determine the structures within. Leaving sections of the timber surface exposed, the painted lines extrude impossible figures, that inhabit a dynamic space within the surface.

Like Zeno's paradoxes, these paintings have no definite end. For every step taken, we must first reach half of that step, and so on, and so on. The line extends upward folding in on itself, knotting tighter and tighter as it rises, yet remains unfinished, like a pyramid without a capstone.

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Spatial Order

Pen, ink and gouache on paper.

These sketches are working compositions for a series of paintings I am currently producing. The paintings are ink and acrylic on board, and the boards have been shaped (similar to the outlines of these drawings).

The lines follow invisible grids, isometric geometries within defined spaces. Hard edge axes act like beams of colour, that bleed away into subtle gradients.

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Sleep Patterns

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Watercolour, ink and pencil on paper, with digital reflection.

Building these amorphous structures with paint is a highly repetitive activity, and I find that it dominates my vision as I grow drowsy. Closing my eyes the painting continues as a form of hypnagogic hallucination. The pattern is animated in this dreamlike state, as I lay with a diffuse-absorbed attention.

The sequence continues in this cycle. The vision of an image to capture, painting towards that image until tired, hallucinating the continued growth of the image, and the bifurcation of a new image.

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Witch Hat II

Traffic cone with metallised film (cask wine plastic bladder).

Highly visible, the traffic cone spends most of its day standing still, marking hazards or redirecting traffic. Silently involved with the work of others, it stands lost in thought, disconnected from reality.

Staring back at the cone, it becomes an object of dissociation. Transmitting a tranquil silence where contact with reality is blurred.

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