Ghosts [& Monsters]
Messums West | 11 Oct - 24 Nov 2025
Do materials hold memory? Does sound have consciousness? What is the potential of a being to express itself from beyond the veil?
The term ghost generally implies something is dead. However in the context of this work, death is seen as energy transitioning into a new form (the alchemy of disintegration as metamorphosis). These works explore how to materialise hidden, intangible things into being, bringing to light that which usually exists beyond the scope of vision. In western capitalist society, the term monsters has been used as a tool for othering. It has been used as a way of segregating humanity from the more-than human worlds that surround us. The works in this show embrace the messy entanglement of co-creation, reflecting on the lives and passings of insects, introduced fish, carnivorous birds, poisonous snakes and nocturnal pollinators from the continent known as Australia.
gallery layout sketch - https://www.instagram.com/p/DMkPxbJI3hj/
Pied Butcherbird Series
23.19 minute moving image piece (on loop) *with audio
metal floor piece (4m sq)
8 x etchings : F B F# D# D# F D A#)
Chaldni plate sculpture
D#6 - 1268.9hz, 2023 [23.19 minutes on loop]
examples of etchings - will be 8 in total [40cmH x 29cmW] - F B F# D# D# F D A# (notes in pied butcherbird melody) *repeated notes relief print
D#6 etching 1268.9hz
D6 etching 1192.hz
WIP
CHROMATOGRAM DIPTYCHS (25.4cm H x 40.64 W)
*framed in herbariums but sell unframed - presentation thematically interesting as speaks to the backdrop of scientific research
Caterpillars in Metamorphosis - Chromatogram of drowned caterpillars (found in a trough) at The Corridor Project | Wiradjuri Country
Zombie Fish - Chromatogram of dead carp found in the detritus of Galari flood | Wiradjuri Country
Nosferatu on Devil’s Rope - Chromatogram of grey-headed flying fox found dead on barbed wire fence | Wiradjuri Country
framing reference from Conversations with bees show at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery (2024-5)
SNAKE CHROMATOGRAMS (approx 60cm H x 60cm W)
*explore printing on silk https://thinkpositiveprints.com/fabric/
framing? Or ephemeral ghost quality floating
Chromatogram of Eastern Brown Snake-skin
Chromatogram of Red-Bellied Black Snake
PROCESS / CORRIDOR RESIDENCIES [presented as concertina book on table] - printed 8x10inch and mounted
artworks for the pod (136cm H x 110cm W)
Mount Gulaga, 2021
Humpback Whale Migrating South, 2024
Epiphanous (Kati Thanda - Lake Eyre), 2022
Honeycomb #3, 2023