at home-talk

at home-talk

2020

I began filming my sculptures with the radio playing in the background. I listened to many people’s worries, concerns, fear of the future and the virus. There were constant updates from the news and notes on what to do during the first lockdown. The continuous talk stretched into my work, head and home space. I filmed my sculptures whilst playing the radio out aloud. After collecting a lot of footage I sifted through the story lines, transcribed what was said, and strung them together into a broadcast summary of what was said and felt during that time.

The radio station was 774 ABC Radio.


House Drawing

Filming my Sculpture at Home and Drawing with the camera

2019

This is a video drawing which explores habit and routine within the home. House Drawing showcases of a selection of objects and architectural forms which focus on the way the body moves to perform its function. By isolating each frame with one aspect of how each thing functions, it breaks down each movement in to a line. The subject in focus is still, while the camera is tilting, rushing, ripping, lunging, opening, tightening, squeezing, poking, circling, and reversing. Each drawing reveals traces of my own association, humour and learnt movement to each thing or task. House Drawing is a window in to my home, how I live and move within space.

2021
'Home Screen', online exhibition, George Paton Gallery, Naarm/Melbourne, VIC


I'll be a few moments

Filming my Sculpture at Home
2020

I’ll be a few moments is a video sequence of everyday day tasks in which myself and my sculptures emulate home life.
Living in isolation whilst completing my degree, my sculptures turned into inhabitants along with covid-19. These encounters are intimate, peculiar and amusing. I filmed how I socialised with my sculptures, according to how I imagined them to behave as autonomous beings. I positioned them around the house in what I call as ‘stations on stand by’, bored and eager to have banter with. The film frames various acts of care, duty and maintenance that need to be done in the time of the leftovers heating up in the microwave. These tasks are instinctual and obscurely satisfying.

This video work has been exhibited in shows which include:
2021
'Home Screen', George Paton Gallery, Naarm/Melbourne,
2020
'Outdoor Screening: Selection of Graduating VCA Students', Buxton Contemporary, Naarm/Melbourne, VIC



square connector square

Assemblage of images and video and recordings of my day, morning and tired voice.

2020

Square connector square is a series of works that are inspired by glomesh fabric.
My work is exploring the sensory qualities and the structural pattern of the material. The gold glomesh fabric is part of my mourning process. When I hold the cooling fabric it’s soothing and the light makes it sparkle. It helps me to work through the pain of losing my Baka in 2019. This material is used as a foundation to draw out the overwhelming experience of loss by transferring it in to a method of making. The body of works experiment with the textural, poetical and structure of the glomesh material. These observations are transformed into drawings, text, video, sculpture and audio.