Wednesday, April 30, 2008

day sixty one

rooftop; studio; brunswick; taking a break from painting; sky; silhouettes; amazing; decided to do self portrait; possible image for invite; red gallery exhibition; the mark maketh the man

Sunday, April 27, 2008

day sixty

some where; outskirts; alice springs (pictured below); spent two nights in alice; april 15-17; hell trip; had a hideous flu; stayed in backpackers; man what was i thinking?; jeezarse! had to drop off my work to araluen galleries; installation was short listed for the alice prize this year; see blog entry day thirty one and a half on my blog for images;

















am heading back up to alice; may 1; with ainslie; exhibition opens friday may 2; then 4 day camping trip; uluru; olgas; kings canyon; bought a new tent; hmmmm chip sandwiches; no showers; good thing is there is a ute muster in the desert on the sunday; yeeeeeeeeeeharrrrrrrr!

copy of artist statement for catalogue;
Night Time is for the Boy who can Fly explores physical and psychological space, particularly the ‘prisons’ people find their cultures have made for them and that they make for themselves.
This installation was first shown at Bus Gallery in Melbourne and originally consisted of three handcrafted wooden hot tubs filled with water. Data projectors were mounted on the gallery ceiling and projected video images onto the surface of the water in the tubs.
I developed the installation after living in Korea and researching the globalisation of sexuality - I became interested in the effects of western queer culture on NE Asia. I have used objects (wooden hot tubs) found in a variety cultures to represent public and private space and the ways these objects/spaces are adapted locally and individually.
The video has three scenes or episodes. Three actors improvise being captured underwater in the tubs. The actor’s movements are restricted by the space they ‘occupy’ in the hot tub. It’s a metaphor for the boundaries forced on individuals by their culture, sub-culture and identity.
For the 35th Alice Prize, I have reconfigured an alternative presentation of this installation with reference to Dante’s Inferno.
In this installation, two scenes or episodes are projected from data projectors mounted on the gallery ceiling into oil drums. The metaphor for imprisonment remains, although in a different form with different cultural and sub-cultural references.

Saturday, April 26, 2008

day fifty nine

some works; in progress; painting exhibition; red gallery; fitzroy; opens august 21; working on gestural abstraction; not painting with brushes; mark making; using whips and the like that i have created; using bike tubes; old leather trousers; electrical wire; string; faux fur; belts; and my hand


this one below; acrylic on canvas; created using a leather belt





















this body of work i am currently working on will be show under the title of "The Mark Maketh The Man"; the impetus for this new work is derived from an interest relating to mark making on the body as a sexual practice;


below; acrylic and shiraz on canvas; created using whip-like object made from electrical wire





















it was intended that each work be created using only one of the objects i had made; but whilst working with them the process has developed and hence presented alternative possible outcomes; these works are experimental in the way in which they are created;


this one below; acrylic on rag paper; created using a leather belt
















the psychology behind the works is that of re-enacting the act and visual outcome of belting. the works are whipped, spanked; belted using fetishised objects that i have created and will exhibit with the work. when working on a painting i use a variety of similar techniques, velocity, puissance; that one may use in this kind of sexual play

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studio shot