Hard Rubbish 2013

As part of the exhibition Camouflage at Sydney College of the Arts. This piece contains found, made, collected, altered and assembled material objects. There were 450 items in total.

On the floor I spelt out "THIS IS A PAINTING" in objects.

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Happiness Table 2008

Mila

Mackenzie

Jane

Anne

Leo

Liz

Little was I to know that Anne Kay would invite people to sit on the floor, around my fashionable table set. Sometimes you make things and have no idea how they will function. I just saw it as a table setting re-fashioned out of disposable objects, but to see it being used as a conversation point was delightful.

Original image; Peter Sclesinger, Lunch table Chateau Mouton Redbook Diary 2004. Subsequently re-named Happiness Table 2008

More synchronicity

Fortuitous Aquarium right around the corner from my house...
when I needed it, I found it...











I don't know the name of this salt water dweller, but I thought it just epitomised everything*, in it's man-made container (reminds me of Lisa Kelly's great work), and also Josie Cavallaro...I remember her work with aquarium photos, cool! These are stills from the video in the blue section, and I shot the film only a week before the show (beautifully edited by IT Superman PJ). I was making work from home, and was going a bit stir crazy, it had been raining in Sydney for weeks...anyway, I went for a walk, and lo and behold, around the corner from my house this great new super-acquarium store had opened, only weeks before, and I knew right away, this encapsulated and super-artificial environment was necessary to include in the show. That blue, it seems to only exist in aquarium outlets! The isolation of the fish snake, in it's homemade converted food container either sheltered it form the other fish, or vice versa. Sherman, the proprietor of the shop was not forthcoming about the fishes, but I was impressed by the amount and quality of his fish specimens, and also these fantastic corals he was growing out of disposable plastic cups. What a trip.

They say that watching fish lowers our blood pressure. I love the fish, I hope they are happy.

I could write about fish and water for the rest of my life. I am very attracted to all the paraphenalia and would like to install in fishtanks, with real live fish, so if anyone has a tank and wants an innovative approach to decoration - I can't promise anything, but I can give it my best - I'm your man.

Water! I am a fish!

*epitomised evrything, huh? How is it possible to epitomise everything? Well trust me, that is what I want to do, I want to capture it all and freeze it, I want past present and future, but NOW NOW NOW! This moment, or set of moments of time, to reverberate and mark time...

Swell 7

Spray painted bag of nuts on outside ledge

SWELL (Just some shit) A grouped show
@ Block


Sunrise found motor; Erskineville, gadget; City Gold back alley, hot glue, plastic

Take away plastics, found display shelves; City Gold back alley, paint, horse, Asian magazine page; Qantas, wax, pins, glass, Perspex, wire, steel, whiskey, hot melt, 10 Lindt chocolate bar cards, sand, string, hessian, shopping trolley, light water, lead, fishing wire, found glasses; Scots Church lane, concrete, t-shirt, light box, oil pastel, pumpkin, watermelon

Found money 1980-2002 money, Sellotape, perspex

Taken in Geneva 2000 photographs; anti land-mine public art

Found in back alley Plastics, wood

Champion shell thing; Auburn household rubbish, plastics, bamboo, glass, hot melt, string, sellotape

Positive gearing hot melt, glass jars from former art work, containing own hair, paint, oil pastel, jelly sweets, snail droppings, shelf

Found rings 1970-2002 rings, found umbrella; in Kingswood, whose is it?, orange juice

Stand found stand; City Gold back alley, Xenon light, batteries, plastics, hot melt, permanent marker, glow in the dark human skeleton head, page from aforementioned magazine, found gloves; Coogee household rubbish, balsa wood; 10 day city sponsor, personal stereo, water

Well donated lighters 2000-2002, pump, water, sandbags, plastic, glass

Sydney snails Stripped box; from garden, snail droppings, plastic box, Perspex shelf

Black Queen ink, stamps, binder, religious icon, local paver

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
In kind sponsor Australian Native Landscapes, thank you Daniel

Thank you to the Hollywood Hotel, Surry Hills, the Union Hotel, Erskineville, and all
the people who donated lighters.