Sam Stewart @ Bus Projects

My friend Sam Stewart recently had some work on display at Bus Projects in the city [Melbourne]. I really enjoyed this work, and the pensive and almost institutional feel it generated. Probably something to do with dismembered tape players running in huge spools that reminded me of old super8 projectors...

Untitled (Inside Looking Out) "explor[es] the impact of past experiences on the psyche using deconstructed walkmans and loops of cassette tape that form words and/or images on the gallery wall"

The voice [Sam's] recorded on these flimsy tapes pronounces metaphysical and/or existential questions in a range of different languages. I think I heard Japanese and German...

A gentle and poetic work. It's on until Feb 26th, so you still have 3 days to see it.

[I must remember to look again and note the points[stars] where the tapes pivot]

It also reminds me of a Modest Mouse song - The Stars are Projectors.

format Festival

Huzzah! I've just posted some work to Adelaide for the Format Festival, which coincides with Adeliade Festival but is more DIY and proabably heaps more interesting.

My friend Logan Macdonald is curating the particluar show it's for, titled NEO_LIFE, which addresses the dualistic themes of nature/landscape and their relevance in contemporary life-as-we-know-it.

For this show I've made a kinetic drawing - something which I've wanted to do for ages, but the opportunity hadn't really presented itself. I realised that if I sent a drawing to Logan in a postpack tube, half of the necessary components for the mechanism were already present in the arrangement, I just bought two tubes from the post office, linked a little hobby motor to it, and voila! one tube contains the drawing, the other contains the brackets, motor and pulley required to turn the thing [the two tubes act as the spools on which the machinsm turns]

Hopefully it survives the journey and my assembly instructions are sufficient...

This is the third work from the current exhibition at Michael Koro galleries. The battery is nearly dead, so the LEDs are pretty faint.

Twofold procrastination - 1) taking random photographs in the studio; 2) uploading them to the blog.

Machinations @ Michael Koro Gallery

These are some images from a collection of works I have on display at Michael Koro Gallery at the moment. These works are kind of hybrids - part maquettes for larger works, part sketches, and partly works unto themselves. The title of the series is Machinations, these are the only ones completed so far. There is another work in this exhibition but it's quite difficult to document, so I have to wait until I can go in with a tripod to photograph it before it gets posted here...

The other artists in the show are: Marcin Wojcik, Ash Keating, Daniel du Bern and Brie Trennery.

The exhibition is open Thurs - Sun, 12 - 6pm, and runs until Feb 28th.