Pieces of Practice

Pieces of Practice at Articulate Project Space

2011-11-16T12:58:00.000-08:00

From 7 November to 20 November 2011

Pieces of Practice working in Articulate Project Space. See here for photos.

Clear Head, Feathered Egg, Book Clairvoyance

2011-06-08T15:20:00.000-07:00

Clear Boxes for Objects

2011-05-28T01:13:00.000-07:00

Desk

2011-05-28T01:10:00.000-07:00

Sticks, Seeds and Shells

2011-05-18T15:32:00.000-07:00

Cut Charcoal, Black Pen Stand, Seaweed Piece, Shaved Plaster Finger, Cut Chalk, Feather Spine, Piece of Shell, Dusted Feather, Chipped Golf Tee

Window Box

2011-05-18T15:28:00.000-07:00

Marble Box, Gold Leaf, White resin Box, Dream Drawings.

Shelved Objects

2011-05-18T15:26:00.000-07:00

Objects away, Studio at night

2011-05-11T15:04:00.000-07:00

Dust Spoons

2011-05-11T15:02:00.000-07:00

Black and White Eggs

2011-04-22T20:21:00.001-07:00

Fallen Things

2011-04-22T20:15:00.001-07:00

Dust Egg

2011-04-22T20:12:00.001-07:00

Pins

2011-04-22T20:06:00.000-07:00

Some time later

2011-04-22T19:58:00.000-07:00

Fish and Bird Drawings

2009-12-06T17:59:00.001-08:00

Ink, Paper

Door Drawings

2009-12-06T17:47:00.000-08:00

Ink, Paper

Window, Desk, Wall

2009-12-06T01:18:00.000-08:00

Green

2009-12-06T01:17:00.000-08:00

Yellow

2009-12-06T01:14:00.000-08:00

Eggs, Glass & Electricity

2009-12-06T00:54:00.000-08:00

Plaster cast of egg interior, Silver egg-cup, Feather, Cotton

Plastic Star, Glass shards

Silver light stand, Magpie feathers

Red

2009-10-05T04:18:00.000-07:00

Found objects: Cake plate, glass bird with broken leg, thimble, flying maple seeds.

Silver

2009-10-05T04:03:00.000-07:00

Found objects: Silver leaf dish, orange seeds, silver pineapple, blue sky cup, white clay from the Blue Mountains, pigeon quills, silver spoons, white clay, silver leaves.

Found objects: Glass Bottle, diamonte screw-on earing, silver spoon with pearl in plastic, pocket mirror, doily section, driftwood, star charm.

Window

2009-10-05T04:01:00.000-07:00

Orange

2009-07-25T06:23:00.000-07:00

Found Objects (Top Picture - Front to Back) Chicken Eggcup, Feathers, Doorknob, Thorns, Orange Eggcup, Sphere Toy, Wooden Spool, Hat Pin, Root, Orange Vase, Leaf Spoon, Clover Plate, Silver Chicken-Leg Eggcup, Goldfish Ball, Glass Bird Bowl, Green Shell, Eggshell Vase, Glass Stopper, Plastic Fish, Green Vase, Plaster Cast Egg Interior, Lichen, Cotton, Glass Orange Doorknob, Wax, Gold Leaf Pin.)

Drawing Experiments/ Monsters

2009-06-29T02:43:00.000-07:00

Ink, Pencil, Watercolour

Clock Star

2009-06-16T20:41:00.000-07:00

Sphere Toy, Shadow Tracing of Plant, Clock Hands, Hat Pin

Desk

2009-06-14T08:26:00.000-07:00

Wallpaper Plants in progress

Wall Objects

2009-06-14T08:13:00.000-07:00

Studio Wall

Green Gold Nylon, White Mohair Wool

Turkey Feathers, Magpie Feathers, Rook Chess Piece

Wall and Writing Paper

2009-06-01T07:25:00.000-07:00

Writing Paper, Wallpaper

Shells and Deer

2009-05-19T18:31:00.000-07:00

Found Shell, Second Hand Shells, Glass Deer

Dream Drawings

2009-05-12T05:35:00.000-07:00

The Poisonous Cat

The town is deserted
we hide in the chalk mines

You have come to
the edge of the earth

You think someone
is holding the rope
you are wrong

Graphite, Pencil

Shelf

2009-05-11T19:10:00.000-07:00

Blue Eggs

2009-05-11T18:52:00.000-07:00

Plaster casts of egg interiors, Polka-dot bowl, Blue Sky / Feather cup, Blue Bird Perfume Bottle, Hat Pin, Pearl, Stocking, Wire

Anatomy Eggs

2009-05-11T18:19:00.000-07:00

Plaster casts of egg interiors, Grey's Anatomy, Material Scissors, Stitch Marker, Pins, Hatpins, Wire, Foil

Dream Drawings

2009-05-11T18:15:00.000-07:00

The tree tops
I am running through

I grew rows
and rows of new
teeth

The sharp spinning
discs

In the room
you are making
paper animals

Graphite, Paper

Chicken Egg

2009-05-11T18:06:00.000-07:00

Plaster cast of egg interior, Chicken eggcup, Nylon, Material Pins

Desk

2009-05-11T17:55:00.000-07:00

Plates, Shells, Jars, bottles, Key, Needles, Vases, Feathers, Seeds, Bottle Stoppers, Labels, Phone Book, Cast Finger Tips, Orange House Object, String

Yellow Bowl, Spirals of Newspaper Cuttings

Eggs and Plates

2009-05-03T22:30:00.000-07:00

Plaster casts of egg interiors, Found Objects: Plates, Hat Pins, Feathers, Cotton, Silk, Linen, Fur, Quartz, Chess Piece

Wood and Paper

2009-04-23T18:55:00.000-07:00

Wooden Easel, Wallpaper Rolls

Eggs and Plants

2009-04-23T18:48:00.000-07:00

Plaster Casts of egg interiors, Found Objects: Hat Pin, Silk, Feather Quills, Coral, Wax, Moss, Mohair Wool

Dream Titles for Future Drawings

2009-04-20T18:50:00.000-07:00

The cat's name
Sun

Skin sold separately

The road is narrow

The gift has teeth
And bites

Wallpaper Plants

2009-04-15T22:41:00.000-07:00

Wallpaper, Feather Quills

Dream Titles for Future Drawings

2009-04-03T00:08:00.000-07:00

The Dragon's back
slips under the water

A childhood animal
is fierce

We've made their house
our own

You're the double

Just fast enough
to dance away

The play is dangerous
The picnic safe

A Brief of Pelicans

2009-03-16T17:30:00.000-07:00

'The Mysterious Universe' Sir James Jeans, Pelican Books 1940

'The Pyramids of Egypt' I. E. S. Edwards, Pelican Books 1947

'Primitive Art' Leonhard Adam, Pelican Books 1949

'The Meaning of Art' Herbert Read, Pelican Books 1950

Mirabella

2009-03-15T22:37:00.000-07:00

Typewriter paper, Pen

Concrete Shadow

2009-03-15T22:13:00.000-07:00

Photograph

Flocks of Numbers, Names of Birds (Sydney White Pages 2007/2008)

2009-03-15T19:53:00.000-07:00

A Constellation of Starlings
A Swoop of Swifts

A Pride of Peacocks

Cuttings from Sydney White Pages 2007/2009

floating page

2009-03-14T16:57:00.000-07:00

Book of Common English Sayings, Window Sill, Breeze

White Box Like Objects

2009-03-13T05:17:00.000-07:00

A story I contributed to Barbara Campbell's 1001 nights cast.

Little finger scattered over mountain

2009-03-12T19:02:00.000-07:00

The cast of my little finger never made it to the mountain. I put a bottle holding the powdered remains in my bag and the stopper fell off within seconds. I sifted through the bag, took out the other contents, and threw the finger out the studio window instead.

Leaf Pin, Flower Ring

2009-03-12T17:48:00.000-07:00

Botanical Cutlery

2009-03-12T16:57:00.000-07:00

Graphite, Paper

Insect Memory

2009-03-12T05:38:00.001-07:00

Boys pressing pumpkin beetles
against the spinning
wheels of upturned bike

Bee sting on big toe
from bee on the path

Four caterpillars
on the footpath

Carriage full of Moths
On Mountains train

The Boy next door
sometimes ate snails

Graphite, Paper

small disturbances

2009-03-11T16:49:00.000-07:00

Missing Label

Fallen Bottle

Studio, Absence (6 Months)

Object Body

2009-03-10T16:17:00.000-07:00

Tongue (Child's feeding implement, Feather, Silk)

Skin (Sewing pattern paper)

Teeth (Plaster cast of fork ends, Feather quills, Cotton)

Stomach (Icing Bag)

Heart (Mussel shell, Feather quill, Wire)

Grass

2009-03-10T00:30:00.000-07:00

Window, Grass, Breeze

Silk

2009-03-10T00:20:00.000-07:00

Silk, Wall, Breeze

selection of finger segments

2009-03-09T07:13:00.000-07:00

Plaster Casts of Finger tips, Found Objects: Cotton, Feathers, Ink Nib

Tracings of Polaroids (Polaroids of Shadows)

2009-03-09T06:55:00.000-07:00

Graphite, Tracing Paper

Burial of the Two Thumbs

2009-03-09T05:48:00.000-07:00

Two plaster casts of my thumbs were buried somewhere here in 2007.

Phoenix Plants

2009-03-09T04:54:00.000-07:00

Each plant has its own booklet of documentation.

The only thing they have in common is that they were found in a nursery, gardening shop, or department store (and have been marked down because they are dying).

For example: Here is some lavender - with no colour left.

The plant is photographed with each attempt to bring it back to life. Each plant is given a season of care.

Feathers (tagged with time and place they were found) Autumn - Spring 2003

2009-03-09T04:45:00.000-07:00

View of the Studio (imagined from the outside)

2009-03-09T04:23:00.000-07:00

If you could see the walls you'd notice no pictures (the pictures have fallen). You would notice the light, the way it slips over the wall like a glove. Inside it is still, quiet, the air heavily hung (like an ocean). Wave after wave of light foam warmed by windows trapping the sun. Small clusters of dust glow like filaments freed from lamps. A bulb, the glass tuber on top of a marble stand is slowly cultivating cobwebs on the sill. Accidents abound. Work has been left. Cups of tea abandoned mid-sip. Dried ghosts of liquid growing in circular roots.

small disturbance

2009-03-09T03:34:00.000-07:00

Cobweb, dust

Fallen Pictures, Tape

Bottles, Dust

Curling Pictures

Studio, Absence (3 Months)

Dream Titles for Future Drawings

2009-03-09T02:57:00.000-07:00

The army of clones
carry scythes

You don't deserve folds

Your voice is
left in the walls

We don't do lunch here

You're in the ice
I'm on the plane

There are wolves
and fish at the door

My blue brooch broke
we talk architecture

The cliff
has split in half

The others steal our
potatoes

A flock of horses
some gazelles
clothes they mistake
for skin

We say goodbye
you leave in a canoe

The blue bird
with teeth

Drawing for a bird

Studio

2009-03-09T02:30:00.000-07:00