Month: April 2017

2001

Sculpture By The Sea

Exoskeleton Pod is a steel plate construction, which creates a minimum architecture for one or two bodies. It speculates about habitation within a public zone or park. As such it is site specific to public space in general, rather than Bondi in particular. Hence the relocation of the work to another public space, such as Campbelltown Gallery, is not a problem. At Bondi it turned its back on the water in order to protect its opening from the elements.

The work is not a literal attempt to create architecture but more a body/building, which occupies itself. It forms a prosthesis, which questions the insect-like quality of the human condition and interrogates architecture.

It occupies a zone between sculpture and architecture, between architecture and furniture and between architecture and the body.

 

Documenta Kassel, Germany, 1997

Exoskeleton Car works between the gallery projects of exoskeleton and architecturally scaled projects of parasite. Not only does it speculate about public and private ownership vis-a-vis the car/art objects, but also creates architectural porosity via an open window.

 

2007

De Overkant/Down Under, Contemporary Sculpture from Australia and The Netherlands, “Parasite Lange Voorhout”, Den Haag, Holland.

2002

steel, sailcloth, timber
300cm x 300cm x 215cm
sculpture by the sea, Bondi, Sydney

2006

Planspiel Nachspiel, “Bee Parasite” in collaboration with Barbel Rotthaar, Atelierhaus Panzerhalle, Berlin, Germany.

2010

Competition Proposal

1998

Union Hotel North Sydney

The parasite forms a room and a balcony area over the restaurant extension below. As a form it bites into the 30s structure of the Union Hotel and clings to the ground inside the courtyard. Growing from this position it surges toward the north, splintering the light with glass, shade cloth panels and zincalume clad wings. These materials combine the flesh like fragility of cloth with the idea of exoskeleton in the shells and steel. The “parasite” is working on a public / private building to further open it to the public space. Viewed from the street it appears to turn the building inside-out revealing social information to public realm.

 

2003

Shellhabour, NSW
Winner of the Blacket Award AIA, 2004
In association with Caroline Pidcock Architects

2004

Regent St, Sydney