Theme: Epiphyte

Work

All Our Ancestors


2014

Work

Cairns Waterfront Commission


2012

Work

Paratekton


2010-15

Work

Flume


2005 - 08

Work

Cactal


2007

Work

Oceanic Endless


2007

Work

Efflorescence


2007

Work

Diaspora/Coalescence


2007

Work

Proximities: Local histories/Global entanglements,


2005

Work

WallZip


2005

The relationship between art and architecture and art and landscape is a theme in my practice. Much of my commissioned work, for example, Pollinator Phenotype and Arborescence directly explore this relationship. An epiphyte is a plant that lives with host plant in a state of symbiosis. Epiphytes such as Cactal and Efflorescence 2007 address the historic relationship between sculpture, ornament and architecture.

Efflorescence and Proximities ask how organic form is appropriated by the vegetal motifs of ethographic art styles. My epiphytes play with their host buildings and streets, challenging some of the assumptions behind the built environment, seeking to reveal hidden historical and contextual meanings and processes of the site within which they find themselves.