These new works are concerned with exploring further representations of issues and contemporary anxieties relating to and expanding upon experiences and observations of subtle and continually aggressive Consumption and Exhaustion processes within Modernist & Post-Industrial frameworks.

A series comprising more than twenty process-based & traumatized representational objects referencing engines, radiators and industrially familiar and culturally embedded Iconic forms.
The works develop exponentially, forming abstracted and distillated ubiquitous Incendiary items that assist us to consume - continually and relentlessly burning and exhausting all available fossil fuel resources.

The works represent subtly violent tools that provide the best metaphor for a continued state of forward moving contemporary culture with very little regard for ecological accountability or sustainability.

The works are pitted against & created via direct and primary and vital forces

The works create active momentos to processes that we may not yet clearly see or pay regard & due sensitivity to.

Materials: Recycled/Disregarded/Collected timber - Pine, Birch, UK Oak, Tasmanian Oak, Opepi, Oxygen & acetylene gas, Propane gas, copper

FILM WORKS

Continual Combustion & Continuous Exhaustion: 2009/10
Series 1: Film works

Continuous Combustion & Continual Exhaustion (DVD & Audio 4:3)
Propane Gas Flame, Oxygen Acetylene, Steel & Copper

Toyota Family Camry – Truck loop drag (DVD & Audio 4:3)
Toyota camry, Diesel Truck, Diesel fuel, Tungsten Lights, Petrol Generator, steel chain, Earth, Rocks.

60min Modern (DVD) Silent (4:3 & 16:9)
Australian Motorway, Railway Line, Assorted Traffic (Sydney, Australia)

Film components so far for this project comprise real-time footage of family saloon Car (Camry) Drag (Continual Combustion) in collaboration with artist Danny Egger (Aust) 2007-09 -documenting and depicting the demise and destruction - via a larger diesel powered engine - of a perfect working order family car. .Three more somewhat abstract ‘macro’-film works show gas & fuel constantly burning, heating and diminishing.. as well as the constant forward running across screen by multiple simultaneous modes of vehicular transport.

By extension a number of the ‘macro’ films also reference cellular combustion and planetary disturbances… all films reference and indicate both cellular & global anxieties.