Born to be Wild:Silver Hill

Premiered in the Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art 2004. Curated by Julie Robinson , Art Gallery of South Australia. Single Channel Video Installation. In which a forest falls down of its own volition – collapsing in on itself in an act of unexplainable violence. Catalogue Essay: Anne Finegan There’s an implicit absence of human fate in this mysterious falling down of the trees. Catastrophe doesn’t always strike at midnight, and is all the more spooky for taking place in the clear skies of a noonday glare. The forest is majestic, rising from the cloud bank with an Ansell Adams black-and-white …

Plasma Wave Instrument: Air Time

2002 – Converge: Where art and Science meet: The Adelaide Biennial, The Art Gallery of South Australia, 2002 -The 13th Sydney Biennale of Sydney, The world (May Be) Fantastic, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia. The Plasma Wave Instrument explores the in-between space of matter both as a real-world phenomenon and as an imaginary rendering via a computer-generated sequence. At the centre of this work is a photovoltaic high-voltage generator that transforms sunlight into plasma. Here, the air in its fourth phase travels faster than the speed of sound, literally burning the air. The mechanism that facilitates this is based …