Archives: Performance, Installation Art and Sculpture

Kimchi and Curry Rocks Meets my New York Diary 2017 Kirra Hill Gallery Materials: framed drawings, bicycle, books of drawings, glass vitrine cabinet wide screen TV, video projectors This exhibition was inspired by my travel to Korea, India and New York City. There were books of drawings about Jack Kerouac Meets JD Salinger about the […]

Return to Sender 1999 National touring exhibition starting at Performance Space Materials: latex, pine wood, chicken wire, news paper, calico, 32cm television, VHS video player with auto play function, 30 minute digital video, and velcro Dimensions: 1.8 m by 0.7m This work was made in response to the theme of the package for a national […]

Gratitude Kirra Hill Gallery 2019 Materials: screen printed t-shirts, artist books, widescreen television, canoe, two trestle tables, DVD players, video projectors, DVDS, framed drawings The title Gratitude comes from letter correspondence with the famous clown doctor Patch Adams and his simple philosophy of love where gratitude plays a large part. In 2019 I made a […]

Mount Hallasan 2003 Site Specific Installation on Je Ju Island South Korea  Materials: bicycle and framed watercolour paintings. Dimensions variable This site specific installation was set up on JeJu Island in South Korea in 2003 when I was working as an English teacher there. I wasn’t very good as a teacher but I made a […]

Cocoon Performances 1994 College of Fine Arts exhibition space  Materials: glass cabinets, carpet underlay ultramarine pigment, scissors, and miscellaneous objects Dimensions variable These two performances were influenced by the Fluxus art movement of the 1960s particularly Joseph Beuys and Yoko Ono. One of Yoko’s performances was called Cut Piece where she stood on the stage […]

The Chthonian Element in Nature Drawings and Photographic Documentation as Catharsis  A Essay About the Artwork Made During My Two Most Recent Studio Residencies At the Big Ci in 2020 and 2021 In October 2020 and March 2021 I undertook studio residencies at the Big Ci in Bilpin in the Blue Mountains on the edge […]