[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Current Projects” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:center” google_fonts=”font_family:Montserrat%3Aregular%2C700|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_tta_accordion active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section title=”Herbarium hamburgense // large scale installation of cyanotypes of plant specimens” tab_id=”1441874023656-b1376fe8-b6712d71-9b56″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”689″ img_size=”medium” add_caption=”yes” style=”vc_box_outline” onclick=”custom_link”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Living in Germany, I learnt of naturalist Amalie Dietrich who collected irreplaceable type-specimens of Queensland plants from 1863-71. Researching in German museums, I discovered extensive collections of Dietrich’s samples. Hidden archives are given visibility; but the metadata is erased. Museological system values that allow Western scientific knowledge to problematically dominate understandings of Australia’s unique biodiversity are disrupted.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Naturkunde-Museum Bamburg // developing artistic works from birds specimens” tab_id=”1441874023759-fa988392-b9ad2d71-9b56″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”825″ img_size=”medium” style=”vc_box_outline”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]developing artistic works from birds specimens[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Dietrichiana // creative online museological archive in response to the Dietrich story” tab_id=”1475210017778-28955389-c73e”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”817″ img_size=”medium” style=”vc_box_outline”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]creative online museological archive in response to the Dietrich story
includes timelines, contested biographies and digital poetry[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Discovering Dietrich // part historical account/part memoir in non-fiction book form” tab_id=”1475210016779-88c1a164-fcc5″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”800″ img_size=”medium” style=”vc_box_outline”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]developing artistic works from birds specimens[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Re:tracing Dietrich // ongoing sorting and classifying of insects collected by me” tab_id=”1475210015824-2a617871-7e7f”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”803″ img_size=”medium” style=”vc_box_outline”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]developing artistic works from birds specimens[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”A taxonomy of things (objekte / objector) // collection and classifying of found man-made objects” tab_id=”1475210014831-1a1d147d-0812″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”669″ img_size=”medium” style=”vc_box_outline”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]developing artistic works from birds specimens[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”A taxonomy of things (Bontanik)// collection and creation of botanical works from both natural and man-made materials” tab_id=”1475210013488-160d049d-e6c9″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”808″ img_size=”medium” style=”vc_box_outline”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]developing artistic works from birds specimens[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”A taxonomy of things (two and a half roos) // collection and classifying of dead animals” tab_id=”1475210790572-195e3de4-5bbb”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”820″ img_size=”medium” style=”vc_box_outline”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]kangaroo – road kill analysis – valuing the valueless[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”A taxonomy of things (Melaleuca drift) // collection and creation of works from natural materials washed downstream in a flood” tab_id=”1475210789953-25f556d9-5994″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”659″ img_size=”medium” style=”vc_box_outline”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Even in the most seemingly untouched natural specimens, in this case bark shed from Melaleuca trees, carries the trace of human intervention in the landscape. These pieces were carried by flood waters and trapped against a shiny new roadside guard rail build over a swift-flowing creek by a mining company. The road is private. Only those authorised to access it are allowed there. Clearly I was not one of them. I have taken these pieces from their resting place against the shiny hard new steel in remote Central Queensland and re-contextualise them in the gallery setting.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_accordion][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Other research projects in progress” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:center” google_fonts=”font_family:Montserrat%3Aregular%2C700|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][vc_tta_accordion active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section title=”Studio experimentation into a sustainable method of making negatives for cyanotypes” tab_id=”1475211734063-71c4f4a4-b930″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”752″ img_size=”medium” add_caption=”yes” style=”vc_box_outline” onclick=”custom_link”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Studio experimentation into a sustainable method of making negatives for cyanotypes[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Transcribing and translating unpublished plant catalogue from the Dietrich document archive ” tab_id=”1475211734452-5e63d2f8-7845″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”809″ img_size=”medium” style=”vc_box_outline”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Transcribing and translating previously unpublished plant catalogue found during my work in the Dietrich document archive at the Hamburg Herbarium in July 2016.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”What about the damn collection? The Dietrich specimens ” tab_id=”1475211734852-f2ffefa1-b222″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”760″ img_size=”medium” style=”vc_box_outline”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Draft article – What about the damn collection? – the Dietrich specimens – their journey – where are they now[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_accordion][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Recent Projects” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:center” google_fonts=”font_family:Montserrat%3Aregular%2C700|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][vc_tta_accordion active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section title=”Filing Dietrich // as archivist organising the Dietrich document archive at the Hamburg Herbarium” tab_id=”1475212175259-e9f8ca90-b9e2″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”809″ img_size=”medium” add_caption=”yes” style=”vc_box_outline” onclick=”custom_link”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Studio experimentation into a sustainable method of making negatives for cyanotypes[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Treasure Hunt // finding of Domin type specimens amongst the Hamburg Herbarium collection for future digitalisation” tab_id=”1475212175730-9f3c051a-714d”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”657″ style=”vc_box_outline”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Transcribing and translating previously unpublished plant catalogue found during my work in the Dietrich document archive at the Hamburg Herbarium in July 2016.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”How to catch flesh flies without really trying // field work in entomological trap building” tab_id=”1475212176225-ca33310e-49ee”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”759″ img_size=”medium” style=”vc_box_outline”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]How to catch flesh flies without really trying // field work in entomological trap building[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Malaise trap// field work in entomological trap building” tab_id=”1475212508949-e22aa3d5-23ad”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”786″ img_size=”medium” style=”vc_box_outline”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]How to catch flesh flies without really trying // field work in entomological trap building[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Un-Hospitable // documentary photography of abandoned children’s hospital in Berlin” tab_id=”1475212506569-015e94b9-67ce”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”822″ img_size=”medium” style=”vc_box_outline”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]How to catch flesh flies without really trying // field work in entomological trap building[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Quadrat (Loder’s Creek) // collection of entomological specimens and macro photographic specimens revealing biodiversity in urban settings” tab_id=”1475212637713-399919fb-29f5″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”28″ img_size=”medium” style=”vc_box_outline”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]How to catch flesh flies without really trying // field work in entomological trap building[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”The Legend of Cranky Rock // Warianda creative writing response to site mythology” tab_id=”1475212679863-c4a2e90d-2366″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”823″ img_size=”medium” style=”vc_box_outline”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]How to catch flesh flies without really trying // field work in entomological trap building[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][/vc_tta_accordion][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Older Works” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:center” google_fonts=”font_family:Montserrat%3Aregular%2C700|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][vc_tta_accordion active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section title=”Field notes from a four-burner stove” tab_id=”1475212739363-0f75b004-45e5″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”795″ img_size=”medium” add_caption=”yes” style=”vc_box_outline” onclick=”custom_link”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]
sex / love / power
relationships
separation / connection
text / drawing / installation
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Make me over again” tab_id=”1475212740051-e951d73e-a5e4″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”657″ style=”vc_box_outline”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]I wasn’t born in the generation of the selfies – younger women seem to innately know how to pose for ‘selfies’ that more than often look great. They are masters in controlling their own images online.
This is one of the issues that this work is about – how we control our image, how manipulated at times it can be. Our social media identities are constructed ones; created by our own self-censoring. I have observed that many women do not even use images of themselves as their social media profile pictures – but rather their kids or something else – it begins to act like a metaphor for their own disappearing sense of identity when assuming the role of mother. I remember reading an article about this several years ago where the author was lamenting the fact that all her friends ‘were slowly disappearing online after having children’… their images were no longer there, as they perhaps felt themselves ageing and not fitting into the constructed parameters of social media stream beauty ideals[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”The Australian” tab_id=”1475212740727-ff886ea6-79e6″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”572″ style=”vc_box_outline”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]The Australian, 23 – 29 April 2014 (2014)
6 channel digital projection
This animated text work comprises of six large-scale digital projections that create a fully immersive space when projected two works per wall on three adjacent walls. Using text sources from the newspaper, each video represents an edition of The Australian, one day of the weekly news cycle. The process starts with cutting out every headline in the daily paper. Meanings are changes, subverted, manipulated as the work evolves over time. Each day’s paper results in a found text poem, that becomes a floating text animation. As straight video works the appearance and disappearance of headlines/textual juxtapositions marries well with the flippancy of information delivered to us in the media. The movement of the animation vitalises the reading of the work. Consequently as an installation there are more layers to the juxtapositions. Further manipulations of meaning occur as the viewer chooses how to read the work – one video at a time, one wall at a time or moving the eye forward and back across the entire space. The rhythmic flow of meaningful and meaningless text is simultaneously disturbing, funny and hypnotic. It is impossible to tell what is real (actual published) and what is pure fabrication.
View full length previews of all 6 video works in this series
Read exhibition essay from The Walls ARI Miami by Kate O’Connor (2015)[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Picturing the News” tab_id=”1475212741409-3bf36c80-410b”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”661″ style=”vc_box_outline”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]About
Picturing the News: The Australian 1973-2013 (2014) is a strategic artistic intervention I have created to draw attention to the continued absence of news media representations of women and the frequently poor quality of women’s media representations that do appear. The project proposal is for the creation of a website that will allow the user to explore, arrange and interact with mass media imagery across time in order to create critical dialogue on the issue of gender representations in Australian news media.
According to the Global Media Monitoring Project (2010)(GMMP) women are significantly underrepresented and misrepresented in global news media coverage. This large-scale initiative maps the representation of women and men in news media worldwide. On 10 November 2009, 1,281 newspapers, television and radio stations were monitored in 108 countries for the fourth GMMP. The research covered 16,734 news items, 20,769 news personnel, and 35,543 total news subjects. The 2010 global report revealed that only 24% of people in the news are women; an improvement of only 7% since the projects inception in 1995. The Australian GMMP study, which equalled the global average of 24%, concluded that female news sources still appear disproportionately as celebrities or victims, and that Australian women are severally under-utilised in stories about politics, business, and other parts of contemporary society (Romano, 2010). The outcome of this underrepresentation according to the GMMP (2010) is an imbalanced view of the world in which women are largely invisible. Women’s voices are significantly absent which results in news that perpetuates a male-centred view of the world. In Australia, woman have a much broader and diverse participation in public life than the media depicts, highlighting the need for activism, intervention and advocacy in this field.
Click here to access test site
Click here to read essay[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Play” tab_id=”1475212742140-61bb8b2a-870d”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”572″ style=”vc_box_outline”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]play (2014)
6 channel digital projection, 6 LCD televisions, 7 plinths, ceramic fragments, broom, desert boots, hammer, packing tape
This series of six video works, with accompanying artefacts, are playful negotiations upon medium specificity. The desire to destruct and reconstruct using various methods and modes has been treated with sophistication through whimsy, humour and timing. Presenting the works on six screens on plinths in the white cube of the gallery space, along with the artefacts of its ongoing destruction and regeneration, serves to further reiterate the themes and forms present in the work itself. Play marries the artist’s basic impulses to create, with a metaphor for processes of generation and decay that exist in just about anything.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Karte Poesie ” tab_id=”1475212743037-e5301750-35c5″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”839″ img_size=”medium” style=”vc_box_outline”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Google Maps Poetry Project: click here to view
(once in the site click on the blue markers to reveal the poems)
This project repurposes Google Maps into a literary device and a navigatable user interface to deliver poetry to the viewer. Each poem is linked to place, not only by the actual markers visible, but by connections intrinsic to the contents of the poems themselves.
UPDATE from late 2015: Please note that the original work was designed and created in Google Maps Classic View which was recently discontinued by Google. It still works in the current version of Google Maps but the design interface is not quite as groovy as it used to be – MV[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Relax (2013)” tab_id=”1475212743763-3aaaa2aa-886f”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”828″ style=”vc_box_outline”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Exhibited simultaneously Relax and Perspective create a pervasive feeling of unease, bordering on anxiety, in both the physical space of the gallery and the mental space of the viewers. In Relax the slowly shifting cloud of heavy steel objects, their aged and weathered ends polished to perfection, hangs ominously above the ubiquitous contemporary plastic chair. The empty chair invites us to sit. The artist’s desire is to create a physiological and physiological response in the viewer; the response is formed when we project ourselves into this dangerously inviting void.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Perspective (2013)” tab_id=”1475226638713-c036959e-ea9c”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”834″ img_size=”medium” style=”vc_box_outline”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Exhibited simultaneously Relax and Perspective create a pervasive feeling of unease, bordering on anxiety, in both the physical space of the gallery and the mental space of the viewers. The three video works that comprise of Perspective offer a counterpoint to the physical unease created by Relax (2013). The same large, violently looming object from the first video is rendered safer and more banal with the benefit of a different perspective, in the next two works in the series.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section title=”Coastal Concrete (2013)” tab_id=”1475213307017-e7405aa0-3886″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”832″ img_size=”medium” style=”vc_box_outline”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]
This series of 18 paintings, installed to replicate the cityscape visible from the artist’s studio window, explores the politics of place at play on the Gold Coast. It was inspired by her participation in workshops for the Brisbane Writers festival, which resulted in a 24-hour non-stop obsessive frenzy of writing that gave birth to a fifty-page concrete poetry journal. The locus of the work is Hamilton Avenue, Surfers Paradise, home to the monumental Q1 building as well as St John’s drop-in centre for the homeless, where the artist was a volunteer cook for two years. These 18 selected poems, painstakingly rendered in the plastic, glossy surface of the canvases, are fragments, open to personal interpretation and experiences, that tell an ambitious and ambiguous tale of life on the Gold Coast.
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