Materials: brass, clock parts, stainless steel Features: revolutionise tea industry Completed: 2013
Teabag Jiggler XI
Apparatus for Viewing Transdimensional Mechatronic Variants of a Set Cause #4a
Materials: cast bronze, stainless steel, copper, brass, found vintage objects, LEDs, DC generators, super capacitors Completed: 2013 A table mounted version of Cornelius Dempsey’s apparatus housed in the Boggo Road collection. In Brisbane today, nothing is known of a Cornelius Dempsey who lived and died in…
Remote Effluxion Cloning Apparatus II
Materials: cast bronze, stainless steel, copper, brass, found vintage objects, LEDs, DC generators, super capacitors Completed: 2013 Like the Apparatus for Non-destructive Transmission of Biological Visualisation, but more portable, the Remote Effluxion Cloning Apparatus (RECA) locks onto a sea creature’s life force and copies it,…
Juice
Client: Vulcana Women’s Circus and Brisbane City Council Materials: mixed Features: it actually works! Completed: 2008 Juice is an eccentric, fanciful and highly physical performance event. Combine the antics of circus, an elaborate steampunk inspired machine operated by eclectic aerial…
Teabag Jiggler X
Materials: various found objects, steel, brass Features: revolutionise tea industry Completed: 2007
Teabag Jiggler IX
Materials: brass, clock parts, stainless steel Features: revolutionise tea industry Completed: 2007
Apparatus for Attracting Attention
Client: Ideas Festival – State Government of Queensland Materials: recycled bikes and components, steel, vinyl sticker Features: designed to demonstrate multiple mechanisms of movements and is operated by a single lever Completed: 2005 The machine was created solely from bicycle parts to…
Bubble Machine II
Materials: Acrylic Sphere, Wheelchair Motors and Controllers, Fabricated Steel, Various Electrical Components Features: Front Independent Suspension, Rolling Beam Rear Suspension, 6 Wheel Drive, 6 Wheel Steer, Electric Door, 2 High Capacity Bubble Blowers Completed: October 2000 Bubble Machine II is styled after the…
LIVID Snow
Client: LIVID Festival Materials: snow and ice Features: Snow in Brisbane’s summer Completed: 1998 The ice yard was installed at the entrance to Brisbane’s LIVID Festival. The ice chair was carved on site by a world champion ice carver, and…
Big Bloody Water Things
Client: Livid Festival Materials: aluminium, flexible waterhose, pump, fibre optics, concrete control gear Features: giant sprinklers, timed to go off every fifteen minutes Completed: 1996 Every 15 minutes the work would spray high pressure jets of water on the crowd…
Bubble Machine I
Client: Brisbane Festival Materials: acrylic sphere, wheelchair motors and controllers, scrap steel, various electrical components Features: three large bubble blowers, three small bubble blowers, stair climbing & wheel stand capabilities (at driver’s own risk) Completed: 1996 The first Bubble Machine was…
Metro Series Teabag Jigglers
Materials: recycled bric-a-brac, clock parts, toys Features: revolutionise tea industry Completed: 1995-96 The metro range of tea bag jigglers was the third installment in the teabag jiggler series.
Teabag Jiggler II
Materials: handforged steel Features: revolutionise the tea industry Completed: 1995-6 The second in the teabag jiggler series, it is now part of the Pat Corrigan Collection.
Go Cart
Materials: handforged steel Features: new trend for the automobile world Completed: 1994 With push and pull levers for hands and feet to lift its steel bars up and forward, this hand-forged go cart digs into the ground to drag and…
Ultima
Materials: recycled bric a brac, clock parts, toys, video, steel, electrical components Features: revolutionise tea industry with the wonders of remote tea making Completed: 1994 Ultima, with the addition of electrical control is the pinnacle of absurd tea making [it actually…
Teabag Jigglers
Materials: various objects, steel Features: revolutionise tea industry Completed: 1993-1996 The idea of the tea bag jiggler came to me one night when a friend was making me a cup of taa [earl grey] for the first time. I looked…
Machine to Walk in a Circle
Materials: hand forged steel Features: walks in a circle Completed: 1993 I made a machine to walk in a circle. Part of its absurdity was the insane amount of time I spent in building each bit by hand. The idea of creating…
Drinks Waiter
Materials: steel, springs, timber, VW parts Features: mechanical walking drinks waiter Completed: 1993 This project started with an exploration in walking machines. The mechanism resembles a chicken’s gait. The full drinks are balanced on the back, while the empty glasses…
Potato Chopper
Completed: 1993 Materials: Steel timber, paint, springs nuts and bolts Features: Revolutionise chip industry The idea behind my work is the melding of whimsy and absurdity. In this case I wanted to take a simple task and make it as hard as…
Tea Bag Jiggler
Materials: Various found objects, steel Features: Revolutionise tea industry Completed: 1993 The idea of the tea bag jiggler came to me one night when a friend was making me a cup of taa [earl grey] for the first time. I looked…