Charge Hub

2018 - bicycle parts, recycled materials, bush poles, concrete - 3m x 3m x 3m

The Charge Hub was commissioned by the Werribee Open Range Zoo to highlight the plight that is facing the gorillas and their habitat in central Africa. The public are invited to sit at the Charge Hub to charge their phones by pedalling on one of the three charge stations. At the same time they are told stories by the guides about how gorilla habitat is being destroyed by strip mining for coltan and other rare earths used in mobile phone production, and the importance of recycling their old mobile phones to help lessen this demand for these minerals.

The Outfall

2009 – Bronze, stainless steel, LED lights, solar panel, batteries – 80cm x 60cm (6 of spread along 20m of footpath)

This work is a series of 6 bronze television screens that are storm-water pit lids. The images on the screens are of where the drain empties into Port Phillip Bay 2 km away. Solar-powered lights theatrically illuminate the pits at night and the subterranean world of the stormwater drains are viewed through voids in the images. Highlighting the unseen and unsung connection between the city’s drains and their outfalls into the nearby waterways in a thought-provoking way was the intention of this work.

Unfurling Fibonacci

2004       Stainless Steel, Copper       1.5m x 1.5m x 5m       Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, Werribee Mansion

This work was the winner of the People's Choice Award in the 2004 Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award. It is another work that explores the Fibonacci numbers and their relationship to the natural world and the Golden Mean. It is now in a private collection.

The Monkey Puzzle Trap

2005       Stainless Steel, Copper       80cm x 1m x 5m       Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, Werribee Mansion

The Banksia Gates

2010 – Stainless Steel – 2m x 2m x 40cm

Stainless steel gates commissioned for the Frankston Botanical Gardens based on the insignia of the gardens - the Coastal Banksia. They employ the evocative cones of the tree with the unmistakably “mouths”

The Globe

1996 – Steel, electrical circuits and PLC controller, lead-light, mixed media – 5.5 m x 4.2 m x 4.2 m

This was the first permanent public artwork I made and was commissioned for the Southgate center that is at the heart of the Melbourne Arts precinct just south of the CBD. It is a dynamic and unfolding work that cycles through many lighting states and physical positions using chance and mechanics. This was another case of a work that was initially made as a temporary work but became a permanent one due to its popularity.