ZilpZalp
ZilpZalp is the realisation of a non-open art in architecture competition winning design for the reactivation of a primary school in Berlin Hirschgarten and financed by the Treptow-Köpenick district office of Berlin. ZilpZalp made a stopover at ZiK (Zeit ist Knapp, a temporary arts space) before being installed at its final destination.
From the edge of the school canteen’s low roof ZilpZalp will be greeting the students, while also keeping an eye on the Erpetal nature reserve bordering the school grounds. It is inspired by the small and easily overlooked warbler (Zilpzalp / chiffchaff) native to most of Europe.
ZilpZalp is made from about 80 metres of solid stainless steel round bar, over 4 meters long and weighs just under 100kg.
ZilpZalp | ZiK | Berlin | 2023
Die wackelige Wolkenstadt – the cloud pod
The cloud pod is the outcome of a participation project with kids, with the aim of designing and developing their ‘chill out’ object. It was realised together with Ben Tindale, managed by bwgt e.V. and financed by the youth council Marzahn/Hellerdorf & the city of Berlin. The cloud pod was initially installed at the Internationale Garten Ausstellung (IGA) 2017, Berlin and later closer the participating kid’s youth centre in Ahrensfelde, Berlin.
Die wackelige Wolkenstadt – cloud pod | Internationale Garten Ausstellung | Berlin | 2017
Undercurrents
Undercurrents | ANU School of Art Foyer Gallery | Canberra | 2014
Undercurrents was inspired by the hypnotizing patterns on the crystal clear water of the Deua river. The work constructs the unlikely encounter of the sublime within the domestic setting of an ordinary laundry sink. A few moments contained within the reflective familiarity of a mundane object. Two random everyday realities that contain water as their elemental thread. The Deua river flowing through daily life.
Orbital
Orbital | Belconnen Arts Centre | Canberra | 2013
The underlying patterns of the material and emotional fabric we weave through become recurring themes in my work. I am searching for the nexus between scientific research and the sensation of wonder to create meeting places between the cerebral and sentimental. The work Orbital is drawing on the cyclical pattern of a scale far beyond everyday contemplation, one that is affecting life on very elemental levels. The sacred nature and quiet celebration of the moon’s cyclical patterns and gravitational impact on the matter of the world around us becomes a central phenomenon of this work.
(ideally watched on a large screen/ fullscreen with a sound system that can accommodate lots of bass. turn up the sound for a visceral experience!)
Zephyr
Zephyr | M16 Artspace | Canberra | 2013
Zephyr is an installation closely related to the exhibition’s title – Material translations. A modified desk fan, fitted with a slowly rotating motor faces a large screen. A looped video reveals the undulating movement of wind caressing a hillside of flowering grasses, time slows down, movements unfold slowly, seemingly conducted by the fan’s considered rotations.
Stillicide
Stillicide | M16 Artspace| Canberra |2013
The works for Material Translations draw on observations such the details and patterns underlying the fabric of our perceived tangible and emotional world, combining different media and objects, instilling them with a drop of poetry and a zephyr of humour.
Solei revisited
Solei revisited | ANCA gallery | Canberra |2011
Solei revisited started with a momentary observation captured on video in 2008, a chance encounter between the sun, a chair leg and myself…
Just Passing through…
just passing through… | Belconnen Arts Centre | Canberra | 2010
just passing through… are sculptural works borne from a desire to engage with the landscape, both constructed and natural. They are observations of the space we travel through – its shape, history and subtle change. An engagement that has been taking place for a seemingly endless time leaving invisible and discernible traces to lead us along our journey…
The Fall and Rise
The fall and rise | ANCA gallery | Canberra |2010
Perceptions between Sound and Vision
Graduation work | ANU School of Art gallery| Canberra |2009
Sound ‐ a primarily invisible phenomenon accompanies our daily lives.
How sound can be engaged in order to guide perception, especially within a sculptural context, lies at the heart of my research. By exploring different properties of sound to initiate a dialogue between materiality and meaning, I have been developing objects that engage a sense of anticipation.
Reflex
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