The solo show Seeding Clouds (The Contemporary Art Space Gorman House Canberra 1995) was about transformation. Just as the ceaseless movement of clouds can be a springboard for imagination, so the repetitive use of simple materials and joining processes can be used to transform the banal into the mysterious. In this show paper, scissors, skewers, wool, tape were the materials and piercing, cutting, gluing and endless repetition turned recognisable paper chains, ‘eyes of god’, ‘snakes’, ‘boats’ into large massed ambiguous objects. Omniscience (“eyes of god”) and infinity (Mobius strips) were crafted from the mutable, the impermeable. Walls of the Gallery were covered by large fragile charcoal powder drawings rubbed through newsprint pierced with astrological symbols, repeated multiple times to blur the images until they became amorphous ‘clouds’, reversing the process of imagining narratives when staring at clouds in the sky.
Materials: Skewers, wools, walnut shells, craft paper, cotton wadding, newsprint, charcoal powder, plastic sheeting, heat guns, metal rings.
Photography credits: David Martin, Tess Horwitz
