Paintings & Multidisciplinary Projects, Installations and Collaborations
SIGNS focus on technology in the personal and intimate space.
Working with non-digital art making, live performance around materials and the human body my practice seeks to engage people in the question of digital wayfinding.
Installations of transformed traffic signs invite viewers to take a fresh look at where they are.
Working with non-digital art making, live performance around materials and the human body my practice seeks to engage people in the question of digital wayfinding.
Installations of transformed traffic signs invite viewers to take a fresh look at where they are.
The works in SIGNS, rather than portraiture or specific narratives, like the upcycled traffic signs themselves, are designed to be read as relevant to the viewers current state . They invite interaction. The material reflectivity reacts to random car lights, street lights or phone flashes and in response to deliberate repositioning of the viewers body.
Some of the multidisciplinary / collaborative projects you will find on this website are:
2013 - 2018 The Conference of the Birds was temporarily installed in Waiheke, Raglan, Hawkes Bay and different parts of Auckland...
Traffic to the Future
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAdwCUWSWgk
2016 Research Project / Online Exhibition
A reflection of how transportation and telecommunication are changing lives in New Zealand.
Using art to stimulate engagment and discourse around those notions.
Featuring works by contemporary artists / performers living in New Zealand mixed with quotes from international writers and scholars.