Project: SCALES
Work: Acetate sheets, digital prints, 3M sprayglue & paper.
Location: VCA, Melbourne AUS
Date: 2013
Details: These acetate-based ‘dragon scales’ are meticulously made én masse; of multiple layers of digitally printed matter, spray-glued together then sliced and collaged in a number of different constellations. Each scale retains a combination of multi-lingual texts (Peter Weibel notes see link), and colour grading images made of macro-lens photographs of surfaces sourced from the immediate studio walls, doors and paint-splatter floors; residue from previous artist’s work. Effectively combining historical mediatheory notations with the built environment, the scales of the dragon are said to enable its chamelleon-like powers to merge, absorb and re-purpose its surrounding ecology.
A statement on the hierarchies of institution on the assumption of greater intellectual accolades equating to rights of passage - S.Quas
Composed of 6 to 8 different traditional beasts (inc. the lizard, the alligator and the rooster) the search for this animal-hybrid’s contextual ‘identity’ within the academic institution becomes the investigation of this project.
__This work was exhibited in group exhibition First Quarter at VCA Artspace and in the Proud exhibition at the Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Southbank, Melbourne, 2013.
Work: Acetate sheets, digital prints, 3M sprayglue & paper.
Location: VCA, Melbourne AUS
Date: 2013
Details: These acetate-based ‘dragon scales’ are meticulously made én masse; of multiple layers of digitally printed matter, spray-glued together then sliced and collaged in a number of different constellations. Each scale retains a combination of multi-lingual texts (Peter Weibel notes see link), and colour grading images made of macro-lens photographs of surfaces sourced from the immediate studio walls, doors and paint-splatter floors; residue from previous artist’s work. Effectively combining historical mediatheory notations with the built environment, the scales of the dragon are said to enable its chamelleon-like powers to merge, absorb and re-purpose its surrounding ecology.
A statement on the hierarchies of institution on the assumption of greater intellectual accolades equating to rights of passage - S.Quas
Composed of 6 to 8 different traditional beasts (inc. the lizard, the alligator and the rooster) the search for this animal-hybrid’s contextual ‘identity’ within the academic institution becomes the investigation of this project.
__This work was exhibited in group exhibition First Quarter at VCA Artspace and in the Proud exhibition at the Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Southbank, Melbourne, 2013.
(Exhibition view) Margaret Lawrence gallery VCA, UniMelb
(Installation view) Student gallery VCA, UniMelb
(Studio installation) Members Dismembered, 2013
