Excellent! You are here! This QR code has brought you to a site where you can interact with my installation art in MATERIAL WORLD: extraordinary environments made from ordinary things at ANCA Gallery in Canberra, Australia.

Historically, the gallery space is a place where creativity and culture both mesh and clash. If only the walls could speak their stories…and we could listen. What has been said there and what will be said in the future? Maybe you can actually hear the words pulse and roll to the surface.

Pick ‘G’ words from the list that seem important to you – artists or themes – or think of your own ‘G’ words…

Gaudí             Guggenheim Gender            Globalization            Gluttony      Gauguin            Garbage        Gibberish                    Geiger Counter             Greater Good               Géricault              Grave              Graze             Giacometti                Generate       Generous                 Giggawatts               Give Place     Gilbert and George           Goal               Google           Giotto             Vincent van Gogh               Goya              GST      El Greco           Grosz

Then, please add your ‘G’ words below.

Your chosen words will be composed into a new audio form and reintroduced to the gallery space at this exhibition’s close…..moving  from written words to spoken words to sounded words to sensational soundscape!…..  Come be a part of it!

Soundscape coming soon

It seemed an easy task to load the 6 x 10 enclosed furniture trailer. But we did not see ahead to the extra long roof of TRANSPORTABLE not fitting in as it should. Next came the hack job when one third of the roof was lopped off and disgustedly thrown into the back. Eventually we got as far as Wangaratta where we picked up the rest of the exhibition, stayed the night and moved onto Bendigo the next day.

[caption id="attachment_728" align="alignnone" width="150" caption="Not going to fit no matter how hard we tried!"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_729" align="alignnone" width="150" caption="Trusty support team. One was taken out of school by her slack parents to be a roadie."][/caption]

I had promised new installations, thinking it would give me strong incentive to complete this work. However, as with all my plans, I seem to over extend myself on many levels. Thankfully, Tom was already working on a plan to reconstruct these deconstructed modules for this exhibition. Here is the work underway. When the ‘shakedown was finished, it still looked too much like a long dog house. This is when I decided to add the rope handle – as if a giant handbag. It was an inspiration that worked!

[caption id="attachment_708" align="alignnone" width="150" caption="Before adding extra roof supports"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_719" align="alignnone" width="150" caption=" The giant rope handle underway"][/caption]