Installations
An archive of recent projects, from installations to murals.
Recent Installations
‘Campus Symbology’
‘Campus Symbology’ is an exterior mural completed in 2022, measuring approximately 240 x 3600 cm. Inspired by the surrounding University of Southern Queensland campus in Toowoomba, the mural design was selected from an open call out to transform the substantial fence line of the School of Creative Art’s sculpture studio.
The design translated buildings and other recognisable structural elements into a two-dimensional visual language. In this way, by working with the direct surroundings the fence line is situated in, a new metalanguage was created to reflect attention back onto the built environment in which it is situated. In this way a previously under-recognised structure was transformed through the mural painting, unconsciously informing the experience of those who work and study on campus by isolating the shapes of their everyday experience and ordering them into a cohesive symbology.
(photography: Johanna Park & Theresa Hall)
‘Vessels of Shared Experience’
The Vessels of Shared Experience was an installation completed alongside a written Exegesis for a postgraduate Honours degree in 2020, completed through the University of Southern Queensland. A pile of vaguely architectural ceramic vessels, hand built from stoneware and terracotta, accompanied a series of large scale drawings obscured by pinned sheets of transparent tracing paper.
The installation aimed to create a work caught in a state between construction and destruction, between fragmented ruin and autonomous space. These ceramic architectural works injected the otherness of the architectural model with a direct link to everyday reality. Using architectural model-like forms, the work embraced the concepts of universality alongside the specificity of the ink drawings to explore the utility of architecture as a vessel for everyday existence.
(photography: Johanna Park & Anna Singleton)