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: 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: 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: 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…
Client: Project Services, Queensland State Government Materials: cast bronze, stainless steel, copper brass, found vintage objects, LEDs, DC generators, super capacitors Features: human-powered Edwardian-era underwater views of Brisbane Completed: September 2010 In Brisbane, 2008, nothing is known of a Cornelius Dempsey who was born…
Client: Project Services, Queensland State Government Materials: cast bronze, stainless steel, copper brass, found vintage objects, LEDs, DC generators, super capacitors Features: human-powered Edwardian-era underwater views of Brisbane Completed: September 2010 In Brisbane, 2008, nothing is known of a Cornelius Dempsey who was…
Client: Project Services, Queensland State Government Materials: cast bronze, stainless steel, copper brass, found vintage objects, LEDs, DC generators, super capacitors Features: human-powered Edwardian-era underwater views of Brisbane Completed: September 2010 In Brisbane, 2008, nothing is known of a Cornelius Dempsey…
Client: Project Services, Queensland State Government Materials: cast bronze, stainless steel, copper brass, found vintage objects, LEDs, DC generators, super capacitors Features: human-powered Edwardian-era underwater views of Brisbane Completed: September 2010 In Brisbane, 2008, nothing is known of a Cornelius Dempsey who was born…
Client: Brisbane City Council Materials: steel, polyurethane, softwall Features: concept design for district level playground, fabrication of custom designed play elements and softfall, buldings by Harry Pearson Playgrounds Completed: 2009 (Stage 2) Hidden World frequently receives high praise from parents as being one of Brisbane’s…
Client: Brisbane City Council Materials: steel, polyurethane, softwall Features: concept design for district level playground, fabrication of custom designed play elements and softfall, buldings by Harry Pearson Playgrounds Completed: 2008 (Stage 1) Hidden World frequently receives high praise from parents as…
Client: Brisbane City Council Features: concept design for water play park on the Wynnum foreshore Completed: 2006 In 2006 I was engaged by Brisbane City Council to develop a concept for a big budget water park. This work was pivotal…
Client: Maranoa Regional Council Materials: recycled machinery parts, ironbark, CNC-cut steel Completed: 2004 The ‘Anti-Loitering Seat’ is a conceptual artwork designed to look like a remnant of turn-of-the-century (19th to 20th) streetscaping. The seat highlights the change of attitudes from…