Sculpture by the Sea submission 2009

Submission words (brief version)

I see the Sculpture by the Sea as an opportunity to create a musically sculptural inscription into the site at Tamarama Beach, through a minimal structural palette.  This site offers a space to engage with the differing effects of light, wind, and other environmental changes. The primary material of the sculpture, acrylic and glass blades are a subtle but striking intervention into the site, with the changing tonal values of each blade playing off against each other to create differing colours, textures and light effects.  The acrylic blades also heighten the environmental changes on the site, polarizing the light, manipulating the wind, and creating spatial effects beyond the tangible sculpture.

from rodchenko to richter

Oil on Canvas 500x600mm

A study of coloured shapes

tamarama study # 1 (looking to the sea)

oil on canvas  800x340

 

tamarama study # 2

Oil on canvas 500x600mm

Looking south from Tamarama

tamarama study # 3

Oil on Canvas. 600x500mm

This is landscape study number 3, for my sculptor by the sea proposal. 

trying to catch the voice

Taken with Nikon SLR sometime in March 2009.

mums art in museum of contemporary art sydney

My mum's cover for a friend's poetry book is being exhibited at the MCA as part of the group exhibition 'Avoiding myth and message, Australian artists and the literary world'. The show is from April 7th to July the 12th. Some of the artist's and poets included are Mike Parr, Jenny Watson, Kerry Elias Moore, Denis Gallagher, Rosalie Gascoigne, Gordon Bennett, Michael Dransfield. I went to the opening last night and it is a really beautifully curated show, showing the praxis between art and poetry. Further its nice to see Australian poets and artists who are widely acclaimed in the international underground getting wider exposer in their hometown.

this is from the MCA website concerning the show:

avoiding myth & message: Australian artists and the Literary world7 April - 12 July 2009avoiding myth & message is primarily an MCA collection based project featuring artists whose works have been informed by Australian literature. The exhibition looks at some of the major themes within both the literary and visual traditions and considers where the two streams of creativity overlap thematically: the landscape/interior, text and image,urban life, politics and the personal. The exhibition also includes ephemera, publications and media-based works produced by artists and publishers from 1968 onwards. MCA collection works will be augmented by selected loans from artists and local collections. Public programs are an integral part of the exhibition. The project comprises readings, performance and d.i.y publishing and production including a repeat of the successful MCA zine fair.