Making plasticine moulds for latex fabric samples. work in progress for large scale sculpture installation linking the dairy industry to biotechnology.
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Tag Archives: Sculpture
Skin and flesh article in Antennae issue 43
A short artist profile on my work ‘Skin and flesh’ features in Matter Matters: Surfaces, Antennae The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, issue no. 43. Here’s some screen shots – the article can be freely downloaded here http://www.antennae.org.uk/
‘biofabricated leather’ samples
First work in progress test casts. As part of my new propositional sculpture installation bloodlines – I’m starting to test out various molds for swatches of fanciful ‘skins’. These ones feature suckers, valves and scales. The suckers casts are double-dipping for my new research into octopuses, using the teats/nipple molds from boobscape to create the mold (I have some larger ones in progress).
Animaladies
Really love the design of this full cover – with boobscape wrapping around the spine. I’m very excited for this book to be launched at Animaladies II, University of Wollongong, in December 2018, where I’ll also be an invited speaker – talking about my propositional new artwork: ‘porous boundaries: mammalian motherhood, biotechnologies and other entanglements’ which will be published in the Animal Studies Journal later in the year (hopefully). This book features an amazing line up of writings by scholars, artists, creative writers etc. See: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/animaladies-9781501342165/ for the table of contents.
porous boundaries – mammalian motherhood, biotechnologies and other entanglements
Just finished up an article writing about my propositional large scale installation. One day I hope to install it – but it requires a lot of wall and ceiling space.
Abstract: This paper outlines my current sculptural research project in which the lives and deaths of dairy cows are entangled with multiple biotechnologies. My propositional sculptural installation brings together extant works such as fleshlumps, boobscape and slink, and new works, to represent the dairy industry, multi species nurturing, the environmental impacts of animal agriculture and the biotech innovations of in-vitro meat and bio-fabricated leather. These works are linked together by a web of interconnected fluids; urine, milk and blood. In this new work I hope to make the links between the diary industry and these extended concerns visible and visceral.
Works in progress: Vulva project
Top row left to right: meat flaps, wax, pigment, hoop. hairy hoop latex, hair, hoop. little hoop, latex and hoop. hairy hoop II, latex, hair, hoop. leaky hoop, latex, string, hoop. battle of the cxxt (under my skin), newspaper clippings from 16/17 June 2018, latex
A number of small works made for the vulva project, curated by Rebeka Axon. meat flaps is made from previous fleshlumps. The latex vulvas are made from boobscape udder pieces. battle of the cxxt (under my skin) was made in response to the recent rape and death in Melbourne, and the surrounding debates about women’s freedom of movement, men’s curfews etc. The text was deliberately taken from other headlines from the weekends paper, with only one clipping referencing the actual incident. It is a low tech cut and paste, embedded in a latex skin, as the latex ages and yellows the words will be obscured.
Diagrammatic wall sculptures
fleshlump (wearable rosary) in Selvedge, March 2017 at Space@Collins
My new work is focusing on the relationships between the dairy industry (boobscape), the collection of ‘co-products’ such as foetal-bovine serum, placental tissues, slink leather from foetal bodies (slink), the demand of these foetal tissue and blood products in cellular technology in particular in-vitro meat and bio-fabricated leather. Using my pre-existing sculptures, and new forms, I will trace the connections between these industries, as well as continue my focus on the broader environmental impact of the dairy industry, in particular the leaching of excess nutrients into the waterways/water table.
