'in case of an emergency' installation
Installation and Conceptual Art Workshop with Rob Garrett at the Summer Do 2013 at the Quarry Art Center.
The brief was: To find a place outdoors which you find interesting. Because I know the Quarry grounds quite well I searched for something I had never seen or noticed before. A forgotten non functional power box took my fancy but only after I had explored the eerie and very beautiful forgotten art village sitting high above the quarry grounds. ( off limit area, closed down by OSH/ Council but highly recommended to go up there to have a look- at own risk!). The second part of the exercise was: To create an artwork in this space with either an idea behind it , though provoking or just visual interesting. We had a time limit of 1 hour. This is what I have come up with.
The brief was: To find a place outdoors which you find interesting. Because I know the Quarry grounds quite well I searched for something I had never seen or noticed before. A forgotten non functional power box took my fancy but only after I had explored the eerie and very beautiful forgotten art village sitting high above the quarry grounds. ( off limit area, closed down by OSH/ Council but highly recommended to go up there to have a look- at own risk!). The second part of the exercise was: To create an artwork in this space with either an idea behind it , though provoking or just visual interesting. We had a time limit of 1 hour. This is what I have come up with.
'joint effort' - site specific quick response
Being at the Quarry you can't avoid noticing a certain smell... so I thought I am making a point.... humour works well when telling people what to do or NOT to do!
'living world' installation
Living World was a group exhibition of artworks that incorporate actual living things. The show was initiated by Vaughan Gunson, curator at NorthTec’s Geoff Wilson Gallery.The invited artists had to responded creatively and intelligently to the challenge of producing a work that includes a living element. Artists had explored ideas of life, death, growth, regeneration, transience, pollution, cultural history and continuation. There were artworks that were beautiful, thought provoking, creepy, and funny. Of course my -Butterfly Collection- fell into the funny category. It consisted of flies and assorted butters in glass jars. My second work 'outsider' speaks of adaptation, survival and hope.
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