
Xerox Candy Bar (Ah, you’re just a copy of all the candy bars I’ve ever eaten) 2013, bone, leather, paper and foam core, dimensions variable.

Relic #1 & Relic #2 2013, Unknown mediums on plaster, dimensions variable.

Xerox Ruin 2013, plaster, bitumen, wire, timber, paper and foam core, dimensions variable.

Head (Mask) 2013, Lanolin, dust, watercolour, pencil and bitumen on paper, 56 x 76cm.

Mask (Head), 2013, Digital photograph on paper, 56 x 76cm
Xerox Ruins
’Merrang’
2013
Boom Gallery, Newtown Victoria
The investigation of architectural and archaeological monuments, primitivism and the awareness of the physicality of decay was the precursor to the perverse reconfiguring of these ruinous objects; stone heads, cow bones, discarded horse bridles and the demonstration of the decay of industry on the property of Merrang.
The artifacts amassed speak only of a ruin once they are assembled; individually they are mere parts to be symbolically experienced as a subverted relic.
Openings, rounds and punctums punctuate the spaces in the works; these pitch objects/drawings emerge as vestigial structures that lie somewhere between antiquity and artifice, the ancient and the modern.
The lanolin dust or filth that was uncovered in the shearing shed outbuildings, although in abundance in the main building, was particularly prevalent on several timber benches from which it was scraped with a small scalpel onto paper and rubbed until it coated the stock. This thick, dusty viscous substance was the instigator for the drawing Head and heralded the sculptural works.
These are ritual objects created for a non-existent tribe.