sculpture

A Brief History of Time

2011 cut text, office paper 168cm x 180cm x 80cm Exhibited in Lovelace, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney

The Garden of Earthly Delights

2011 cut paper, text 210cm x 420cm Palm House, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney

Confrontation between the masked men over the colour of god's beard

2005 (dimensions variable) ceramic Manning Regional Gallery

Bloodlines

photographs, transparencies, fresnel lenses, acrylic Red Box Gallery, Herbarium, Sydney

Bloodlines (detail)

photographs, transparencies, fresnel lenses, acrylic Red Box Gallery, Herbarium, Sydney

Bloodlines

photographs, transparencies, fresnel lenses, acrylic Red Box Gallery, Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens

21%O2

2009 aluminium, scientific flasks

The Alchemist's bed

2006 mirror, timber

One degree of Separation (detail) 2012

ceramic

If we think of the evolutionary history of animals as a vast lineage which has undergone incremental changes, generation upon generation over billions of years, we can see that in the bigger picture each of our family trees have common roots — roots common with all of the other animal species. Wanting to find a metaphor for this common lineage and to share this understanding of our commonality with all life on earth, and (by implication) with corals, I created the work One Degree of Separation. Not only are we inextricably linked to corals by this inconceivably vast succession of individual lives lived and the ‘morphing’ of one species into another over vast expanses of time, but by our fortunes as well. The delicate biological balance that has been arrived at on the planet over several billion years has not been immune to external forces—it has been created by them. This work is a visual metaphor for the idea that the fortune of humans is inextricably connected to the health and well-being of other animal (and plant) species and that the bleaching and death of corals that can arise from even a one degree rise in sea temperature is a warning to humanity of our ultimate dependence on a stable and healthy planet and the absolute necessity to care for it.

One degree of Separation (detail) 2012

ceramic

If we think of the evolutionary history of animals as a vast lineage which has undergone incremental changes, generation upon generation over billions of years, we can see that in the bigger picture each of our family trees have common roots — roots common with all of the other animal species. Wanting to find a metaphor for this common lineage and to share this understanding of our commonality with all life on earth, and (by implication) with corals, I created the work One Degree of Separation. Not only are we inextricably linked to corals by this inconceivably vast succession of individual lives lived and the ‘morphing’ of one species into another over vast expanses of time, but by our fortunes as well. The delicate biological balance that has been arrived at on the planet over several billion years has not been immune to external forces—it has been created by them. This work is a visual metaphor for the idea that the fortune of humans is inextricably connected to the health and well-being of other animal (and plant) species and that the bleaching and death of corals that can arise from even a one degree rise in sea temperature is a warning to humanity of our ultimate dependence on a stable and healthy planet and the absolute necessity to care for it.

One degree of separation

2013 120 cm x 120 cm x 85cm ceramic, timber

If we think of the evolutionary history of animals as a vast lineage which has undergone incremental changes, generation upon generation over billions of years, we can see that in the bigger picture each of our family trees have common roots — roots common with all of the other animal species. Wanting to find a metaphor for this common lineage and to share this understanding of our commonality with all life on earth, and (by implication) with corals, I created the work One Degree of Separation. Not only are we inextricably linked to corals by this inconceivably vast succession of individual lives lived and the ‘morphing’ of one species into another over vast expanses of time, but by our fortunes as well. The delicate biological balance that has been arrived at on the planet over several billion years has not been immune to external forces—it has been created by them. This work is a visual metaphor for the idea that the fortune of humans is inextricably connected to the health and well-being of other animal (and plant) species and that the bleaching and death of corals that can arise from even a one degree rise in sea temperature is a warning to humanity of our ultimate dependence on a stable and healthy planet and the absolute necessity to care for it.