CALCULATION OF THE RAINBOW

MARS - Melbourne Art Rooms
418 Bay Street, Port Melbourne
13 to 31 September, 2006

Spinoza experimented with the exacting art of grinding lenses for microscopes and telescopes. He was fascinated by optics and allegedly wrote a treatise on rainbows. Scholars speculate on how the geometrical structure of this treatise might have been reflected in the form and structure of his Ethics...read more

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MOON WATER

MARS - Melbourne Art Rooms
418 Bay Street, Port Melbourne
16 to 31 August, 2005

This installation entitled Moon Water includes a sequence of photographs of the moon taken during one night from my bed overlooking the Seine in Paris. It also includes hundreds of plaster and gauze moulds of jellyfish, and a collection of mirrors whose silver tain has worn away with the passing of time...read more

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ALL TOGETHER NOW: FREUND UND FEINDE

part of "For Nothing", a group exhibition curated by Domenico de Clario
The Bank, 2 Great Northern Highway, Midland
26 November - 14 January, 2005

This work is comprised of a peacock green embroidered Chinese silk robe; the text of a Japanese translation of 'Freund und Feinde; das absolute', by the Catalan born German philosopher, Alexander Garcia Duttmann; and a video by Kasimir Burgess of a reading and translation by a Japanese art student, Utako Shinto. ...read more

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THE SMILE OF MADAME HOUDON

Installation: DVD projection, plaster set in water from the Seine, paper

This installation explores two interrelated questions: 
How can a sculptor, whose practice is based on the three dimensional forming of images  approach video as a form of material making and touching? Secondly, how can an existing work of sculpture, from another time and place, be resuscitated and revivified through a film medium and through a form of words? ...read more 

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AU FOND DES IMAGES

part of "For Nothing", a group exhibition curated by Domenico de Clario
The Bank, 2 Great Northern Highway, Midland
26 November - 14 January, 2005

This work takes its title from a text by the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, 'Au fond des Images'. ...read more

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PAPIER MACHINE

Spacement Gallery
15 March-9 April
Watson Place (behind St Paul’s cathedral)

Between the ground and the sky, the letter and the breath, beneath her hand and his text, a dress forms. Behind the paint and the cloth she threads his words. A conversation begins.  The camera casts her form in echoes of voices, footsteps on marble, hushed conversations.  She comes dissolved in light, dressed in his words — a daily weaving of thoughts, marks and stains, pigments, specks of dust, frayed edges and loose threads to touch, hook and haunt her skin. The dress somehow fits.  Yet the silk holds its own damp, its own weight of un-conforming folds – secretions of a foreign tongue.  ...read more

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THE FOUR HORIZONS OF THE PAGE

part of "Oblique Shadows: Asian Influence in Australian Sculpture"
Sculpture Square, Singapore
2001

Starting with the moment the hand touches the page, the moment the writer strikes a key, the first letters, words and sentences, unedited and uncorrecter, I take hold of the edge of the white page and fold along each line of black ink. ..read more

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