The Consequences of Success. 2013 - 2016

In this project, I contemplate the perception of nature and mentality of homemaking by colonisers and migrants. Through creating  a series of works, I attempt to uncover the violence embedded in basic human activities of survival and environmental change;- the aftermath of distortion, melting and piercing.

" Our district was considered the 'Garden of the Southern Hemisphere' in the in fancy of the colony. Here is an officer's account of our town, recorded in December 1794. 

Parramatta is a town situated at the extreme cover of Port Jackson. On your ascending the wharf appears a row of huts on each side, and a spacious road (200 feet wide) to the distance of a mile. At the upper end (the Cumberland but now Parramatta Park) Governor Phillip erected his country seat. The garden that surrounds is beautiful, abounding in the season, with grapes, melons, pumpkins, and every other fruit and vegetable...The governor's garden at Parramatta is so situated by nature that, in my opinion, it is impossible for atto form so rural a scene." [1]

1, The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate (Parmatta, NSW: 1888 - 1950), Wednesday 8


The list of works:

Sugar castings of five English fruits and Vegetables.

Hold it to grow

A stained landscape

Disturbances of the stillness

the concrete castings of rabbit burrows

another record of dripping

Our first lamingtons made in Australia

Management 


Exhibitions/Installations

Rifts: particular matter, 2018 Testing Ground, Melbourne

The Consequences of Success II

2016, Kings ARI, Melbourne

The Consequences of Success at VCA Master graduation exhibition

2015, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne

The Consequences of Success I

2014, Food Court, Melbourne

the installation at the student gallery, 2015. Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne

the installation at the student gallery, 2015. Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne

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