This is where TEXT and IMAGE converge
This is a scrolling adventure designed to showcase my work with text—the hybrid creations ranging from audio, to audio-visual, to narrative+image.
I am a collaborator on a project dedicated to exploring creative intersections and minglings between academic research and art. Some Islands can be found here: https://someislands.com/
Ghost? is the result of 8 months spent conducting a paranormal investigation into my own history—visiting locations that are deeply personal and feel haunted by “my ghosts”. Research and Development was funded by Arts South Australia, and Vitalstatistix. The work was produced on Kaurna country in South Australia
Some Ghosts …
Colonnades: 1981
An audio visual piece produced as part of the field work for Ghost? Here I explore the banality of the shopping centre with the reality of narratives that we bring into these spaces—our memories, our emotions. The phenomenology of public spaces fascinates me because it is at once a collective shared space and experience, but also filled with meta-narratives of private life of individuals. We collide with our ghosts in such places.
Christie’s Beach: 1987
An audio visual piece produced as part of the field work for Ghost? Here I explore some of the more intimate memories I hold of another public space. A more nostalgic phenomenology was apparent at this location. The ocean holds a different power to a human-created space. Here there is a living depth and breadth to the location that exists before my time and will carry on when I am gone. Ocean tides, like breath.
Love Songs for the ones that got away …
My pandemic project. Locked away in my studio, in isolation for a year. My first experiment with what I could achievement entirely on my own. A strange time. Mastered and Published by Observable Universe.
“Last Seen Alive”: Lacan, Louise and I in a Haunted House
The paranormal is personal.
ARTS RESIDENCY May 2023
Vitalstatistix
LOST
Part of my Words Fail Me project, funded by Arts South Australia as part of the Recovery Grants program. Designed to support artists during the global pandemic. I began to explore the relationship of memory and personal narrative to landscapes, but not as a direct relationship (“this is where X happened”), rather the relationship of how being in nature, really being there actively listening and feeling it, arouses thoughts, memories, and ways of narrating. I recorded this on the traditional lands of the Marditjali people of Australia.
Arts Residency May 2020
Signal Point Gallery, Goolwa (Ngarrindjeri country)
Exploring a personal history of Strange Encounters - locked in a tiny cinema for a week, the screen-as-memory-projection-space. A storytelling project in which no film is ever screened as such, but rather the space of the cinema is explored as a figurative waiting room for memories to arise and transform into narrative.
