INSTALLATION WORKS & HAND MADE OBJECTS (scroll down)

Agua y gasolina - the dual powerers of life in Oaxaca, 2022

An Installation - Estudio Abierto, Oaxaca, Mexico, 2022
C. de Manuel Fernández Fiallo 315, Centro, 68000 Oaxaca de Juárez, Oax., Mexico

An installation consisting of hand made objects, drawings and photographs. The installation stages a stand off between the two major givers of life here in Oaxaca- water & gasoline.

Water is represented by the hand made woven fabric dyed in natural color extracted from the guii plant. It gives life to the corn, the maguey, the bamboo, the clay, the trees to make wood, all represented by the hand woven sculptures- therefore giving life to not only Oaxacas food/drink industry but to its precious & important local artisan industry. Oaxaca is famous for its beautiful handmade crafts - techniques carried down through generations & worked at from home.

The people of the valleys are called Cloud People in Zapotec. The clouds lay so low to the ground but there is drought here. Gasoline & chemicals power faster results to service demands (such as acrylic dyes vs natural ), & is even used in cultural rituals such as the los diablos in place of paint because it's accessible.

So, the work questions the impact to industry & life if water , in the valleys of the cloud people, gets more scarce? And what will the landscape look like?

Waste Ruin - Artefact of a legacy, 2021- 2022

Exhibited as part of a group show titled "Conversations on Shadow Architecture - CoSA " at Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney, 2022.

The show was curated by the Dominik Mersch Curator Award recipient Ineke Dane.

A podium made up of 72 x hand made ceramic tiles with indigo glazed hand drawings

A fragment of half a column made up of home made bricks that use clay, sand, lime and aggregate that was discarded as waste by various industries

Size 120 cm x 55 cm x 25 cm

Urn to 2020

Hand thrown and built ceramic urn, hand painted and glazed with images from scenes experienced during the year 2020. The scenes depicted encapsulate experiences that impacted people collectively, including changing the way we had to stay in touch technologically (as a result of COVID 19), having to confront systemic racial injustices being carried out whilst not having the usual work and lifestyle routines in place to maintain modus operandi, experiencing the severity of the impact of unfolding climate change with Australia's severe summer bushfires, the economic impact on business & residential tenants who had lost jobs during pandemic and the question of how to stay connected, on a human level, when having to physically isolate from one another. Price on application.

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Creating new works that are a hybrid of not just materials, processes and techniques - that make you question the origin story of their parts, and pause to think about how to experience them in their current composition