Antipodeans: Australian Art
Ross Manning. 2011. Endless Sheet.
2011
Overhead projections,paper, Toyota electric window motor, dowel, cardboard, wood, and tape. Installation view.
Via: Milani Gallery.
Nike Savvas, Atomix - Full of Love, Full of Wonder.
Australian artist Nike Savvas makes final adjustments to her art piece consisting of over 50,000 polystyrene balls at the New South Wales Art Gallery in Sydney, August 3, 2006.
Via: REUTERS/David Gray
Denis Beaubois, William McClure and Jeff Stein, Impasse. This is an experiential work of art where each individual audience member passes through a wall, experiencing physical pressure, light and sound.
Via: Melbourne Festival.
Yandell Walton, Human Effect. Upcoming installation, Melbourne Festival.
Accomplished projection installation artist Yandell Walton has collaborated with animator Tobias J Edwards and software developer Jayson Haebich to bring Festival-goers a spectacular new interactive artwork.
Mapping the contours of an urban laneway, Walton repurposes it as a canvas for a series of vibrantly animated projections, creating a paradise of verdant growth. Flowering vines twine up pipes, moss and ferns spread across the walls, while vividly coloured butterflies alight on window ledges.
An echo of ages before human inhabitation, the scene entices viewers to move closer: an approach that sees the new life wither and slowly die, destroyed by the human presence, only to be renewed once more in a riot of foliage and motion as viewers move away.
Make the discovery of this remarkable loop of growth and decay, a visual arts gem hidden amid Melbourne’s secluded backstreets and laneways.
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Ghostly Figure Spotted in Sydney Harbor
Brisbane design firm The Buchan Group has successfully summoned a ghostly figure from the waters during Vivid Sydney 2012 (May 25 to June 11). Before anyone goes running and screaming for an exorcist, here is a little something you should know. This giant of a ghost is, in fact, a subaquatic light sculpture called “sub|version” created with projection mapping. Here is some more information about the work:
The piece is an innovative mapped water projection, and can be seen near the northern Overseas Passenger Terminal tower. The installation extends the virtual performance into the waters of the Quay itself and features elements usually found only on land, including high-contrast people and scenes submerged in symmetry with the spectators. A spotlight reveals forms, figures and patterns hidden in the depths.
all images © The Buchan Group [via inspir3d.net]
Pip Stokes and Gregory Burgess, Sense, 2009.
Installation made from beeswax, raw silk, cocoon silk, and mixed media. First shown at the Shelter exhibition, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, in September-October 2009.
Stokes is an artist and Burgess is an architect who collaborated on this artwork as husband and wife, to speak to the theme of kindness. This work is arranged into loose, six-sided abstracted hexagon blocks to suggest a beehive space. The use of raw cocoon silk is used to evoke intimacy, empathy and commune. Sense was installed outdoors, in the artists’ studio in the Melbourne bush. Viewers are encouraged to walk around the space and experience the healing properties of nature.
Stokes writes of this exhibition:
It is timely that this exhibition puts ‘kindness’ back into the discourse surrounding art and architecture, as it has long been considered unfashionable and relegated, along with other aspects of empathy, nurture and care, to irrelevance…
An architecture of kindness would, in our thinking, offer some of these same qualities – the intimacy, reciprocity and care that enables empathy and relationship to flow between human beings: an architecture mediating between a challenging yet protective built environment to a kinder world beyond its healing walls.
Source: Pip Stokes. Post by ZeeZee.
