The four-day contemporary arts festival, Cementa15 has finally drawn to a close after what has seemed like a very long build up...my work, Indicatus, spent 18 months in development for its debut at the event. The period after an exhibition or a showing is one of those weird, limbo-land type experiences, as you come down …
It's been a week since the test install that left me with a short list of 'tweaks' to make to my sensory installation work, Indicatus, before arriving in Kandos for the two days of install prior to Cementa15 proper getting underway on April 9. So, after sourcing a bigger TV screen for the video (thanks to my …
Months have now passed since I've had an opportunity to physically work on my installation piece, Indicatus, for Cementa15, but there have been plenty of other administrative tasks to do such as provide artist profiles, chase sponsorship (thank you to Dubbo City Council & the Western Plains Cultural Centre - I hope to do Dubbo proud) and …
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Speed dating Kandos It’s fair to say I wasn’t very prepared for my week-long residency in Kandos, something I’d agreed to as an artist participating in the 2015 Cementa contemporary art festival (9-12 April). Exhausted before I’d started after a big year of consulting work and creative projects, and not sure of what I would …
The work on my installation piece for Cementa 15 has been a stop/start affair, even since refocusing and finding a new direction for the work after my Fire Station Arts Centre residency in late 2013. So it is with nearly all the sensory works I've been producing since 2008…they seem to all have long gestations. …
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