Photography, sculpture and other miscellaneous 'art'. In comes that incredibly irritating question that contemporary art lecturers enjoy asking, "what is art?". As for my latest answer? I'll fill that in later when I get around to it.... Paintings and drawings still need to dug out of my storeroom and digitised for web presentation. |
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University of Sydney - Sydney College of Arts
Year: 2001-2004
Title: Random Uni Photography
Description: Miscellaneous unsorted photography taken somewhere around 2001-2004 on B&W film. Gallery currently only works in Firefox3, IE8 and Google Chrome.
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University of Sydney - Sydney College of Arts
Title: water
Year: 2002
Medium: house paint, wood, plastic & water
Description: Installation representing water. Entire wall painted blue with canvas attached to the base, extending 1.5m outwards on to the floor allowing smooth continuity. 3 rectangular white plinths loosely placed on the canvas giving the illusion of icebergs. Plastic buckets in the same blue colour as the wall placed on top of each plinth and filled with water. Photographs lost, only 3D mock-up available.
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University of Sydney - Sydney College of Arts
Title: at the table
Year: 2002
Medium: Digital & printed on 11"x16" Ilford B&W paper
Description: Originally a website to show a portion of a staged photographic series focusing on the contradiction in apparel and dining habits. How the people dressed in business attire have bad table manners etc. Original website no longer exists, remaining files has errors with over 200 broken image links... so a few photographs from the series are displayed.
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University of Sydney - Sydney College of Arts
Title: Scots
Year: 2002
Medium: Digital & printed on A3 300gsm paper
Location: The Scots College, Sydney
Description: Cultural research photography, photographic documentary of subculture. Documenting the general school atmosphere of the high school I attended. Click thumbnail for the rest.
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Title: Travel
Year: 2002
Medium: Digital & printed on A3 300gsm paper
Location: Sydney & Melbourne International Airports
Description: Photographic documentary attempting to capture the atmosphere of air travel. Quite a disaster this project, airport security and so on wouldn't permit photographing in certain areas, and also caught the next flight back to Sydney. Click thumbnail for the rest of the photographic set.
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University of Sydney - Sydney College of Arts
Title: The Street
Year: 2002
Medium: Digital & printed on A3 300gsm paper
Location: Sydney CBD
Description: Street photography - selected images from the series studying the quietness in the city during certain hours on a working day. Click thumbnail for the rest of the photographic set.
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The Scots College - Sydney
Title: untitled
Year: 1998
Medium: white clay
Project/Description: Clay sculpture of a white elephant sleeping on a lotus leaf, situated in a large sculpted basin. Procelain lotuses surrounded the underside of the leaf. Edge of basin deeply engraved with traditional Thai motifs of the lotus. Final high school year project, part of pair with the winged elephant. *broken to pieces due to transportation from final year exhibition hall and probably now crushed under some Sydney garbage site, photographs lost due to old computer error.
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The Scots College - Sydney
Title: untitled
Year: 1998
Medium: wood, white clay, plaster & wire mesh
Project/Description: Porcelain sculpture of a winged white elephant with gilt tusks, (wings constructed of wooden pieces gilded with gold leaf), placed upon a "broken" greco column and suspended by fishing line from the ceiling. Final high school year project, part of pair with the sleeping elephant. *broken to pieces due to transportation from final year exhibition hall and probably now crushed under some Sydney garbage site, photographs lost due to old computer error.
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The Scots College - Sydney
Title: untitled
Year: 1997
Medium: various
Project/Description: Sculpture (including base) made from wood. Every individual "feather" piece cut with a jigsaw and assembled with a glue gun. Wings coated with clear lacquer, base painted with powder blue and white acrylic. Inspiration from the Winged Nike or Victory or whatever it is called in the Louvre.
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