Near and Far
2023
Painted Steel, LED Panels.
Private Collection
Sometimes we all wait for a figurative lightning bolt. Perhaps for inspiration, maybe a sign, or just a much needed jolt.
The numerals indicate how many kilometres away an actual lightning bolt is from the sculptures position in real time.
Near and Far questions the passive approach of waiting for distant inspiration, instead encouraging us to embrace the power of our own actions.
Losting
2023
Site Specific Light Installation
VIVID Sydney
The mirrored structure exhibits a contorted jungle that is refracted with alternating depth due to a developed babushka doll mirroring technique, where double-sided mirrored cubes are nested within more double-sided cubes. These layered structures are then rendered transparent or reflective by individual orb lights.
Minor Figures
The Minor Figures coffee shop. Climb the giant oat carton up to the cafe and grab a coffee with a side order of the absurd.
Greetings
Edmondson Park, 2021
LED, Painted Aluminium.
Commissioned by Ed Square, Greetings is a permanent and large scale lighting work. Underneath the typography, 35,000 shimmering kinetic discs undulate in the breeze.
Depending on the time of day, the wording alters to suitably greet the thousands of passing commuters below every day.
Hot With The Chance of a Late Storm
Sydney, Australia
Bed-Verts
A commission from Howatson & Company where abandoned mattresses were repurposed into billboards. A technique was established that could rapidly prototype huge letterpress stamps that then, when body pressed onto fetid mattresses, actually created some instant and beautiful typography.
The Recycled Bar is built entirely from products diverted from landfill. Glass, bottles, plastics, concrete, bread tags, even the timber is from an old Mad Max set - all reimagined into a contemporary cocktail bar on Sydney Harbour. Commission by 1800 Tequila and DDB Sydney.
The Recycled Bar
Red Cross
In December 2020, devastating bushfires swept through Australia. To help, the Australian Red Cross commissioned a very different kind of Christmas tree in Sydney’s CBD. One made entirely of materials collected from fire-stricken areas. An audio tour told personal stories behind the charred decorations, while gifts underneath let onlookers donate to Red Cross Disaster Relief & Recovery.
What the truck
Little Hunter St, Sydney.
It Wasn't Meant To End Like This
Aarhus, Denmark
Netflix Barbershop
Built from scratch, these two competing barbershops opened to the public to celebrate the Netflix release of ‘The Gray Man.’ The installation featured two distinct sides, on the ‘good’ side you get a goatee like Ryan Gosling, or on the ‘bad’ you could get a moustache like Chris Evans. If you wanted something else, too bad.
Immersive theatre included escaping hostages, couriers delivering rope and acid, chainsaws and screaming out the back, and bodies dragged through in rugs.
Despite this, the barbershops were booked out, apart from the three customers who ran away.
Client: Netflix & Special Group
MCA
Inspired by the vibrant installations of the exhibition Sip My Ocean by Pipilotti Rist, the bar Colour Fields officially launched on the 3rd November at the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney.
‘Everyone is Welcome at Our Table’
Sydney Mardi Gras, 2023.
Artistic Director.
Commissioned by Coles,
Sydney Mardi Gras & DDB Melbourne.
I Wish You Hadn't Asked
Aarhus, Denmark
Exhibited in both Sydney and Denmark, the work features a house which rains within. Over the exhibition period of 30 days, the public are encouraged to walk through the deteriorating environ.
Once
Aarhus, Denmark
Crushed amusement park.
Remote Store - Vollebak
Meet Carol, Ross and their Dog Bronson. They run one of the most remote stores on Earth with the nearest neighbour 264 km away. Adventure brand Vollebak just made them their first stockist.
Bump in the Night
Vivid 2022, Sydney
An interactive lighting installation that consists of 50 snoring tents, set out like a quiet campground. If you audibly scare a tent (like doing a yowie scream for example), the tent ‘wakes’ and a panicked torch waves about from within.
I Heard They’re Dirty
Pulse Contemporary Art Fair, New York.
Tiger Trading Co.
The Tiger Trading Co. was a collaboration with Marcel Sydney and Tiger Beer to design a store that champions the depth of Asian creativity.
Built on Canal Street, the counterfeit capital of New York, the store aims to break down the stigma associated with goods that are made in Asia.
The store features a glass floor stretching over cheap mass produced counterfeit goods. Above the floor, over 700 bespoke items are exhibited from contemporary designers that hail from countries such as China, Singapore, Hong Kong & Japan.
What a Tasty Looking Burger
Sydney, Australia
GAYTMS
GAYTMs was a collaboration with TBWA Melbourne and ANZ, to mark the bank becoming principal partner of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.
ATMs in Sydney’s CBD were transformed into handcrafted artworks bejewelled with over 800,000 rhinestones. The GAYTMs took over 4000 man-hours to design and construct. The project won the Outdoor Grand Prix at Cannes, and was one of 2014’s most awarded projects globally.
City of Sydney
The new Martin Place Christmas tree marks the first stage of a four year appointment by City of Sydney as lead design studio, charged with transforming Christmas in Sydney. The tree measures a height of 25 metres, has 110,000 digitally mapped lights, 330 baubles, a three and a half metre colour-changing star and 15,000 native flowers featuring Banksia, Waratah, Bottlebrush, Wattle, Eucalyptus Gum Flower, Kangaroo paw, Flannel flower, Pink Wax Flower and White Wax Flower.
‘Make A Wish’
Us
Sydney, Australia
Us is a public art project that consists of a temporary outdoor photo studio. People passing by are invited to be part of a formal group photo with fellow strangers. 6435 people were photographed over 17 days. Once your picture has been taken, you receive your own signed and numbered copy to take home.
The work has been responsible for a recent marriage.
CGU
Located on King St in Newtown, this live installation brought to life the business opportunities a vacant store can present. Using projection mapping, every evening a forgotten store would suddenly spring to life.
God's Eye View
(Moses, Ark, Cross, Eden)
Pulse Contemporary Art Fair, Miami, USA
A sequence of four moments from the Bible as visualised from satellite photography.
NRMA
A concept car created for TBWA Sydney and NRMA Insurance. The challenge was to design and build a car using all the parts of a car that other insurers don’t insure. The car was a fully functioning vehicle which toured the country. Overall the build took two months, five cars, and is comprised of over 50 extras.
GayNZ
GAYNZ was a commission from TBWA Melbourne and ANZ, to highlight the 10th anniversary of the bank's sponsorship of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras. To mark the occasion ANZ wanted to convert an operating city bank branch from the usual ANZ to GAYNZ.
