Location: Pacific Paradise, Sunshine Coast QueenslandMaterials: Recycled Australian Hardwood Timber, Weathering steelCompleted: 2018 In coastal forests, trees grow strong in the sand and are buffeted by coastal gales. Their strength and resilience can be attributed to a messy complexity found underground. This generously…
Artists: Russell Anderson + Rebecca Ward Location: Pacific Paradise, Sunshine Coast Queensland Materials: Australian Weathering Steel, Stainless steel, RGBW pixel lights Completed: 2018 The coil of a snake, the curl of a fern frond, a sundew flower about to unwind its honey trap: one…
Artists: Russell Anderson + Rebecca Ward Location: Canungra, QueenslandMaterials: Weathering steel, stainless steel, concreteCompleted: 2017 The spectacular topography of the scenic-rim into which is nestled the town of Canungra is the subject of this prominent gateway marker. The contoured weathering steel resembles a…
Client: Stockland and Sunshine Coast Council Location: Birtinya, Sunshine Coast Materials: Australian Weathering Steel Completed: 2017 ‘Play energises and enlivens us. It eases our burdens, renews our natural sense of optimism and opens us up to new possibilities.’* iDIDIT! is a monumental sculpture that…
Client: Fraser Coast Regional Council Location: Maryborough, Queensland Materials: Stainless steel, bronze, copper, electro-mechanical components Completed: 2016 “One of the advantages for Maryborough men, when ships arrived, was the influx of young unmarried women. It was not long before the colonial bachelors of Maryborough…
Client: VicRoads and Stonnington Council Location: Gardiner Station, Glen Iris, Victoria Features: Interactive LED lights, original signal box components Materials:Stainless steel, bronze, copper, electro-mechanical components Completed: 2016 Recent cataloguing of the switch house and signal box in preparation for upcoming works uncovered some items…
Client: Brisbane City Council Location: Graceville, Brisbane Materials: Stainless steel, bronze, copper, electro-mechanical components Completed: 2016 Long ago, infamous inventor, Franz Andriessen worked from a laboratory/workshop in one of Graceville’s grandest old houses. Though the property has long since be demolished,…
Client: Camille Serisier and Brisbane City Council Location: Wynnum, Brisbane, Queensland Features: Microwave sensor driven rgbw led lighting Materials: Powder-coated stainless steel rusted steel and concrete Completed: 2015 Artplusdesign project managed and manufactured this commission by Camille Serisier for Brisbane City Council. Taking the form…
Client: Brisbane City Council Location: Rocks Riverside Park, Seventeen Mile Rocks, Brisbane Materials: Stainless steel, concrete, chain, spun aluminium Completed: 2016 In 1933 Queensland Cement and Lime Company caused a sensation at the Chicago World’s Fair with their demonstration of “Lighter than Air” concrete.…
Client: Sunshine Coast Council Location: Beerwah, Queensland Features: Microwave sensor driven rgbw led lighting Materials: Stainless steel rusted steel, copper, LEDs, machined aluminium Completed: 2014 At one time Beerwah was home to hundreds of pineapple farms. The competition was fierce with growers constantly looking…
Client: Melbourne City Council Location: Middle Promenade, North Wharf, Docklands Features: Human powered electricity generator driving multiple LED/fibreoptic lights, cast sterling silver automata (internal) Materials: Stainless steel, bronze, copper, electro-mechanical components Completed: 2014 Another work in my ‘imagined histories’ series the Apparatus for Transtemporal Occurrence…
Client: Brisbane City Council Location: City Botanic Gardens, Brisbane Features: multi-level sandpits catering to a variety of children’s wheelchair heights Materials: Stainless steel, bronze, copper, custom water dripping system Completed: 2014 The Apparatus for Germination of Achaemienis Ambulatii (Pony Plant) is a sculpture in my…
Client: Landcom Location: The Ponds, Blacktown, Sydney NSW Completed: 2012 Features: Fabricated by prisoners at Parklea Correctional Centre Materials: Mild steel, stainless steel, custom-made ceramic tiles: The project involved the design and fabrication of functional art seating by prisoners at…
Client: Sunshine Coast Regional Council Location: Noosa Features: Local flora Materials: Custom cast aluminium, CNC cut Australian recycled hardwood timber Completed: 2013 The custom cast aluminium legs of the seats feature a relief created from a photograph of reed round in local wallum swamp. The…
Client: Sunshine Coast Regional Council Location: Noosa Features: supporting vertical steel rods inspired by the patterns in local reeds Materials: Stainless steel, CNC cut Australian recycled hardwood timber Completed: 2013
Client: Sunshine Coast Regional Council Location: Noosa Junction Features: Automatically updating via GPS, rear sphere opens on the hour to reveal mythical wallum creature Materials: Swiss clock movement, GPS, stainless steel, bronze, copper, electro-mechanical components, MEGAbay LED lighting Completed: 2013 The…
Materials: brass, clock parts, stainless steel Features: revolutionise tea industry Completed: 2013
Materials: cast bronze, stainless steel, copper, brass, found vintage objects, LEDs, DC generators, super capacitors Completed: 2013 A table mounted version of Cornelius Dempsey’s apparatus housed in the Boggo Road collection. In Brisbane today, nothing is known of a Cornelius Dempsey who lived and died in…
Materials: cast bronze, stainless steel, copper, brass, found vintage objects, LEDs, DC generators, super capacitors Completed: 2013 Like the Apparatus for Non-destructive Transmission of Biological Visualisation, but more portable, the Remote Effluxion Cloning Apparatus (RECA) locks onto a sea creature’s life force and copies it,…
Client: Moreton Bay Regional Council Location: Marine Parade, Redcliffe Materials: Stainless Steel, Cast Aluminium Features: hand-wound electricity generator powering LED lighting and internal automata Completed: 2011 Invented in the early 19th century by eccentric naturalist Franz Andriessen, the device is believed have…