SCULPTURES AT KILLALEA - Killalea State Park, October 13 - 16, 2016

The inaugural 'Sculptures at Killalea ' was held in the Killalea State Park on the NSW South Coast in October 2016.  I created a 'Round Wall' cardboard and wool sculpture for the 4 day event.  It was the first time that one of these works had been shown completely out doors.  On the first night there was a massive storm, but the work survived (albiet slightly wonky...).  Here is a VIDEO of the work (and I got on the cover of the local paper The Mercury).

ANNUAL GROUP EXHIBITION 2016 - Factory 49, 49 Shepherd St, Marrickville, Sydney, 2204, August 4 to August 13, 2016

The Factory 49 Annual Group Show for 2016 involved the work of 34 artists.  I contributed a pair of cast aluminium 'Circle Squares'.
Click here for a copy of the CATALOGUE and click here for a VIDEO of the exhibition.
The photos below are courtesy of Factory 49.

'Circle Square Cast 1 & 2', cast aluminium, 18cm x 18cm each, 2016

Installation shot with work by Nancy Constandello, Marlene Sarroff, Annelies Jahn & Anya Pesce.

HAVE YOUR SAY - Articulate, 497 Parramatta Rd, Leichhardt - 18 to 20 December, 2015

'Have Your Say' was the end of year exhibition for Articulate Project Space.  From the Articulate website - "Have Your Say is our 2015 end-of-year exhibition of spatial and experimental artwork by artists who have previously shown at Articulate. This year Articulate was prompted by the social and political crises facing the world to invite artists to have their say—about climate change, war, refugees, extinctions, the environment, the TPP or other concerns artists have".

CLICK HERE for a copy of the exhibition room sheet.

My contribution was 4 gouaches from my "Nothing To Say Here" series in which arrangements of circles and squares are determined by random artists' quotes.  The 4 works shown were - 'An Empty Canvas is Full', 'A Line is a Dot That Went For a Walk', 'The Task of Art is to Bring Chaos Into Order' and 'The Job of the Artist is to Deepen the Mystery'.

"An Empty Canvas is Full", gouache on paper, 30cm x 30cm, 2015

"A Line is a Dot That Went For a Walk", gouache on paper, 30cm x 30cm, 2015

"The Task of Art is to Bring Chaos into Order", gouache on paper, 30cm x 30cm, 2015

"The Job of the Artist is to Deepen the Mystery", gouache on paper, 30cm x 30cm, 2015

DIRECTORS SHOW 2015 - Factory 49, 49 Shepherd St, Marrickville - 26 November to 6 December 2015

The 2015 Directors Show in the Office Project Space at Factory 49 included work by myself and Marlene Sarroff, and introduced the new Directors for 2016 - Tania Alexander, Michelle Le Dain, Anya Pesce and Lisa Sharp.

My work was two gouaches on paper - prototypes for a series of "Nothing To Say Here" paintings that had been initiated by the painting that I made for "Bad Spelling" called "I have nothing to say and I am saying it".

CLICK HERE for a copy of the catalogue on the Factory 49 site, and HERE for a video of the works.

"The task of art is to bring chaos into order", gouache on paper, 29cm x 29.5cm, 2015

"Art is art. Everything else is everything else", gouache on paper, 29cm x 29.5cm, 2015

CARREMENT2 - Factory 49, 49 Shepherd St, Marrickville - 26 November to 5 December, 2015

Carrement2 was the final exhibition for the year at Factory 49 and the final exhibition that I was involved with as a Director. 

Carrement is an artist collective based in Paris founded by Milija Belic.  Carrement2 at Factory 49 was the first of the collectives' exhibitions to be held outside of Paris.  It contained the work of 30 International Artists and was organised by Bogumila Strojna. My work was the large 'Circle Square Construction' that I had sent for the previous Carrament exhibition.

CLICK HERE for a copy of the exhibition catalogue and CLICK HERE for a video.

Circle Square Construction, cardboard,acrylic and PVA, 58cm x 58cm, 2015

SALON DES REALITES NOUVELLES 2015 - Parc Floral de Paris - 18 to 25 October 2015

My work for the 2015 Realities Nouvelles exhibition was a 4 panelled painting - Circle Square Expanded, with a small Circle Square painting for the petit work.

Thank you to Bogumila Strojna and Nathalie Lebeau for the installation shots.

Circle Square Expanded, oil on canvas, 4 panels, 70cm x 70cm, 2014

Installation view, image by Nathalie Lebeau

Installation view, image by Bogumila Strojna

Installation view, image by Nathalie Lebeau

Petit Works - Installation view, image by Bogumila Strojna

Petit Works - Installation view, image by Bogumila Strojna

WALL WORK - Factory 49, 49 Shepherd St, Marrickville - 3 Sept to 12 Sept 2015

"Wall Work" was a solid wall of cardboard cubes tied together with yarn.  It was the first time that I had exposed the 'ends' of the boxes where the overlapping flaps created a greater variation of colour.  As usual, the arrangements of colour were random, as was the 'orientation' of the overlapping ends.  It was also just a single layer of boxes with no corners or turns, so was a bit of an experiment as to whether it would stay upright throughout the exhibition as it depended entirely on its own balance.

I exhibited alongside it "Wall Work-Yarn" - a crocheted piece constructed from the discarded yarn of previous cube works.

CLICK HERE for a video of the exhibition and CLICK HERE for the catalogue.

WALL WORK (detail) acrylic on cardboard with yarn, 247cm x 324cm x 18cm, 2015

WALL WORK - YARN, woollen & acrylic yarn, 120cm x 120cm, 2015