As a thought experiment during my MFA I proposed to complete the ‘7000 Eichen’ social sculpture project begun in 1984 in Sydney. Beuys was ill with cancer and Rene Block began the project with the planting of one tree and one stele in the forecourt of the Art Gallery of […]
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“Hazelhurst 20 Years Exhibition” I was chuffed to be asked to participate in the 20 Years Exhibition – I have been installing in and around Hazelhurst for the last 10 years, with numerous pieces in the Art On Paper Award shows and with work in solo and group shows in […]
‘Wick’d Bins’ are an iteration of the wicking bed designed by Colin Austin. I have reduced the number of components and utilised pallets as a form of recycling. If cost were not a consideration then I would go with longer lasting materials and construction. These adequately serve as a demonstration […]
After gaining our hearts and our minds Hollywood drained our souls and our wallets. The title is inspired by the essay by Professor Sherry B. Ortner, extolling the virtues of New Hollywood of the 1960s and 70s, and Independent films of the 1980s and 1990s. This body of work critiques […]
I recently attended two conferences back to back on the weekend of 24 – 28 May. The first was the Rethinking Urban Forests Conference held at the Addison Road Centre, Marrickville, NSW. This was the inaugural event at Addison Road and it showed there is a great and growing interest, […]
The install crew of Hazelhurst would be chuffed if you came and said hello Sunday 11 November following the opening of the Weapons for the Soldier exhibition.
The painting and not the painter won the 2018 GreenWay Prize, Open Section. Apparently it caught the three judges ‘eye’ and appealed to either the academic, the material or emotional. And so it goes. The painter will be ensconced in a year long supported studio residency at the White Creek […]
28 September 2018 Good to be entering competitions again. I had been away from the easel for a bit following my MFA, tidying up various projects and without studio space. Feeling the need to mess with paint again I rented a studio in The Nest, which has since moved from […]
13 November 2016 Part of the Kandos School of Cultural Adaptation’s “Hemp Initiative”, a hempcrete wall is built on a property facing Angus Avenue, Kandos. It functions as a symbolic gateway to Kandos and a monument to the role Cementa will play now and in the future.
Gilbert Grace is the artist leading the Hemp Initiative, who first suggested the idea of realising Ian Milliss’ poster artwork “Welcome To Kandos” as a real world enterprise – “making the fantasy a reality”. He recently became acquainted with Singgih Susilo Kartono, an Indonesian Designer who is also using the […]