Ball Park
Exploring sculptural and visual languages, Ball Park playfully acknowledges the dynamics of the spaces we occupy when spending time with one another.
Inspired by the relationships, communications and interactions of which daily life is comprised, Ball Park is a participatory sculpture which asks to be activated by the viewer. Each viewer’s interaction with the work creates a unique experience of potential and actualised play, each slightly different from the next. In this, there is an aspect of mimicry which references the structures which we engage through bodily action.
Images courtesy of The Audio Foundation.
Exploring sculptural and visual languages, Ball Park playfully acknowledges the dynamics of the spaces we occupy when spending time with one another.
Inspired by the relationships, communications and interactions of which daily life is comprised, Ball Park is a participatory sculpture which asks to be activated by the viewer. Each viewer’s interaction with the work creates a unique experience of potential and actualised play, each slightly different from the next. In this, there is an aspect of mimicry which references the structures which we engage through bodily action.
Images courtesy of The Audio Foundation.
Audio Foundation
8/10/20 – 31/10/20
Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland
8/10/20 – 31/10/20
Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland
Materials:
ceramic marbles, repurposed rosewood, borrowed aluminium lampshade, steel,
plaster, orange acrylic, fishing line, and an instructional banner.
There are Always Birds to be Fed Bread (performance)
There are Always Birds to be Fed Bread was a durational performance where I explored accidental, public, and invited publics in a park setting dressed in a seagull costume. Each iteration of these settings was held a week apart. The park that the performances occured is very populated with birds so the costume was made in response to this site to develop an assimilation method of ‘blending in.’
Documentation of one of these days I made into a short film which you can access here.
Images and documentation courtesy of Lindsey De Roos.
There are Always Birds to be Fed Bread was a durational performance where I explored accidental, public, and invited publics in a park setting dressed in a seagull costume. Each iteration of these settings was held a week apart. The park that the performances occured is very populated with birds so the costume was made in response to this site to develop an assimilation method of ‘blending in.’
Documentation of one of these days I made into a short film which you can access here.
Images and documentation courtesy of Lindsey De Roos.
Western Springs Park
April 2019
Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland
April 2019
Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland
Materials:
repurposed polystyrene, foam, plaster bandage, paint, fabric
repurposed polystyrene, foam, plaster bandage, paint, fabric
Playground of Failure, Bad Jokes and Other Forms of Resistance
This practice-led masters project explored the lengths that failure can be used as a sculptural tactic. The modalities of failure and success are positioned as examples of dualistic norms that create prejudice and competitive expectations. Installation practices explore the potential of failure through the relationships between objects, material, and action. Utilising an amateur methodology and provisional methods that celebrate failure, possibilities of refusal against normal modes of value arise. Through strategies of repetition, diagrams, queering, and play, I have explored the potential of labour, failure, and humour as forms of resistance to heteronormative value production.
This practice-led masters project explored the lengths that failure can be used as a sculptural tactic. The modalities of failure and success are positioned as examples of dualistic norms that create prejudice and competitive expectations. Installation practices explore the potential of failure through the relationships between objects, material, and action. Utilising an amateur methodology and provisional methods that celebrate failure, possibilities of refusal against normal modes of value arise. Through strategies of repetition, diagrams, queering, and play, I have explored the potential of labour, failure, and humour as forms of resistance to heteronormative value production.
ST Paul Street Gallery, July 2021. Tāmaki Makaurau
Dorks, Losers, Lemons
Dorks, Losers, Lemons was a collaborative project between Isabella Dampney and Sophie Sutherland. Together they explored the absurdity of rigid structures in urban life. The show was an invitation to confront the propriety of spaces within and outside the gallery, while drawing on humour as a means of reconnecting with pleasure and play.
Images courtesy of Lindsey De Roos.
Dorks, Losers, Lemons was a collaborative project between Isabella Dampney and Sophie Sutherland. Together they explored the absurdity of rigid structures in urban life. The show was an invitation to confront the propriety of spaces within and outside the gallery, while drawing on humour as a means of reconnecting with pleasure and play.
Images courtesy of Lindsey De Roos.
Malcolm Smith Gallery, 8/10/22 - 5/11/22
Hot Wheels 3000
Hot Wheels 3000 invited participants to race an option of three remote control cars in Samoa House Lane, adjacent to RM gallery. This project was a sculptural and interaction conception of competition, expectation, play, and comradery. Each participant had the option of going int the draw to win a player hat or one of the cars involved. The winners were drawn at the conclusion of the exhibition.
Images courtesy of Ardit Hoxha.
Hot Wheels 3000 invited participants to race an option of three remote control cars in Samoa House Lane, adjacent to RM gallery. This project was a sculptural and interaction conception of competition, expectation, play, and comradery. Each participant had the option of going int the draw to win a player hat or one of the cars involved. The winners were drawn at the conclusion of the exhibition.
Images courtesy of Ardit Hoxha.
RM Gallery, 22 March – 15 April 2023, Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland
Materials: steel, contrete, bronze, remote controlled cars, hats, sound, LED light strip
