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,…
Sandcastle Competition
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…
Lighter-than-Air Concrete
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.…
Apparatus for Germination of Achaemienis Ambulatii (Pony Plant)
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…
Apparatus for Viewing Transdimensional Mechatronic Variants of a Set Cause #1
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…
Apparatus for Viewing Transdimensional Mechatronic Variants of a Set Cause #2
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…
Apparatus for Viewing Transdimensional Mechatronic Variants of a Set Cause #3
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…
Apparatus for Viewing Transdimensional Mechatronic Variants of a Set Cause #4
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…
CitySmart Display Portals
Client: CitySmart, Brisbane City Council Materials: various Features: vintage componentry employed in a working interactive display Completed: December 2009 Working with a timeline of only three weeks, I was to create an interactive display highlighting environmental issues, renewable and energy smart…
Hidden World – Stage 2
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…
O’Callaghan Park Seating
Client: Brisbane City Council Materials: cast aluminium, CNC cut aluminium, glass tile mosaic Features: designed as individual seats enabling multiple combinations to be assembled in clusters before bolting down Completed: 2008 The seats were designed in consultation with young people who use the park.…
Hidden World – Stage 1
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…
Tin Town
Client: Queensland Transport Materials: various Features: six buses mounted with miniature cameras and LCD viewing screen with industrial computer control, hand made ‘tin’ buildings, total size 2.5m x 2.5m x 1m Completed: 2006 This installation features a 1950s style toy…
Wynnum Water Park
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…
Carole Park Community Centre
Client: Carole Park Community Centre Materials: concrete, spraycrete, mosaic, laser cutting, timber, branding, landscaping materials, native plants Features: renewable energy (solar) Completed: 2001 The brief for this project was to visually unite the two halves of a recently extended community centre.…
Murrarie Target Seat
Client: Brisbane City Council Materials: steel, concrete, custom coloured spray-crete, auto paint Features: skate-friendly seating node Completed: 2000 The concept of the target seat was developed in community workshops and design developed by the artist. The seat is installed on…
Cuisine on Charlotte
Client: Cuisine on Charlotte Materials: laminated Jarrah, cast aluminium, CNC cut steel, tilt slab concrete, toughened glass, custom-cut granite paving Features: column design integrated as load bearing structural elements Completed: 2000 Cuisine on Charlotte is a sidewalk eatery on the…