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The Michelangelo project is an interactive CD ROM which involves the construction of facial portraits of Michelangelo through a model based on police identikits and historical material from the writings of Vasari. The work thus bridges the gap…

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From within the pile of books, on an endless loop, comes the sound of two voices telling an endless story. The story is made from quotations from more than sixty different novels. The pieces are put together in such a way that they suggest a…

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A temporary installation for an exhibition at the Women's Gallery in Melbourne - curated by Penny Webb. The work was made in collaboration with Anna Gibbs who wrote & performed the sound work with Nola Farman. The work used net hammocks &…

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Several sections of old cars have been dragged into the gallery and electronically activated in some way - by sound and/or video. This piece was made in collaboration with Anna Gibbs, Brad Clinch and Helen Britton. An additional sound track of a…

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Two armchairs face each other across an island of carpet. One of them is occupied by a large red plastic love heart, steadily beating and pulsing with light. As anyone approaches, the heart beats faster and louder, subsiding as s/he moves away again.…

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A miniature TV monitor is embedded in an illustrated dictionary. A viewer can sit at a desk an put on earphones. The sound track is a monologue on reading & writing - the constructing of meaning through these practices. The video shows archival…

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Artist StatementA double sided armchair made of secondhand hardcover novels contains a sound track of the continuous reading of a collaged narrative taken from 64 different novels. A quasi-narrative which never finds a resolution.