Artists: Russell Anderson + Rebecca Ward Location: Pacific Paradise, Sunshine Coast Queensland Materials: Australian Weathering Steel, Stainless steel, RGBW pixel lights Completed: 2018 The coil of a snake, the curl of a fern frond, a sundew flower about to unwind its honey trap: one…
Client: Stockland and Sunshine Coast Council Location: Birtinya, Sunshine Coast Materials: Australian Weathering Steel Completed: 2017 ‘Play energises and enlivens us. It eases our burdens, renews our natural sense of optimism and opens us up to new possibilities.’* iDIDIT! is a monumental sculpture that…
Client: Fraser Coast Regional Council Location: Maryborough, Queensland Materials: Stainless steel, bronze, copper, electro-mechanical components Completed: 2016 “One of the advantages for Maryborough men, when ships arrived, was the influx of young unmarried women. It was not long before the colonial bachelors of Maryborough…
Client: VicRoads and Stonnington Council Location: Gardiner Station, Glen Iris, Victoria Features: Interactive LED lights, original signal box components Materials:Stainless steel, bronze, copper, electro-mechanical components Completed: 2016 Recent cataloguing of the switch house and signal box in preparation for upcoming works uncovered some items…
Client: Brisbane City Council Location: Graceville, Brisbane Materials: Stainless steel, bronze, copper, electro-mechanical components Completed: 2016 Long ago, infamous inventor, Franz Andriessen worked from a laboratory/workshop in one of Graceville’s grandest old houses. Though the property has long since be demolished,…
Client: Brisbane City Council Location: Rocks Riverside Park, Seventeen Mile Rocks, Brisbane Materials: Stainless steel, concrete, chain, spun aluminium Completed: 2016 In 1933 Queensland Cement and Lime Company caused a sensation at the Chicago World’s Fair with their demonstration of “Lighter than Air” concrete.…
Client: Sunshine Coast Council Location: Beerwah, Queensland Features: Microwave sensor driven rgbw led lighting Materials: Stainless steel rusted steel, copper, LEDs, machined aluminium Completed: 2014 At one time Beerwah was home to hundreds of pineapple farms. The competition was fierce with growers constantly looking…
Client: Melbourne City Council Location: Middle Promenade, North Wharf, Docklands Features: Human powered electricity generator driving multiple LED/fibreoptic lights, cast sterling silver automata (internal) Materials: Stainless steel, bronze, copper, electro-mechanical components Completed: 2014 Another work in my ‘imagined histories’ series the Apparatus for Transtemporal Occurrence…
Client: Sunshine Coast Regional Council Location: Noosa Junction Features: Automatically updating via GPS, rear sphere opens on the hour to reveal mythical wallum creature Materials: Swiss clock movement, GPS, stainless steel, bronze, copper, electro-mechanical components, MEGAbay LED lighting Completed: 2013 The…
Client: Moreton Bay Regional Council Location: Marine Parade, Redcliffe Materials: Stainless Steel, Cast Aluminium Features: hand-wound electricity generator powering LED lighting and internal automata Completed: 2011 Invented in the early 19th century by eccentric naturalist Franz Andriessen, the device is believed have…
Client: Project Services, Queensland State Government Materials: cast bronze, stainless steel, copper brass, found vintage objects, LEDs, DC generators, super capacitors Features: human-powered Edwardian-era underwater views of Brisbane Completed: September 2010 In Brisbane, 2008, nothing is known of a Cornelius Dempsey who was born…
Client: Project Services, Queensland State Government Materials: cast bronze, stainless steel, copper brass, found vintage objects, LEDs, DC generators, super capacitors Features: human-powered Edwardian-era underwater views of Brisbane Completed: September 2010 In Brisbane, 2008, nothing is known of a Cornelius Dempsey who was…
Client: Project Services, Queensland State Government Materials: cast bronze, stainless steel, copper brass, found vintage objects, LEDs, DC generators, super capacitors Features: human-powered Edwardian-era underwater views of Brisbane Completed: September 2010 In Brisbane, 2008, nothing is known of a Cornelius Dempsey…
Client: Project Services, Queensland State Government Materials: cast bronze, stainless steel, copper brass, found vintage objects, LEDs, DC generators, super capacitors Features: human-powered Edwardian-era underwater views of Brisbane Completed: September 2010 In Brisbane, 2008, nothing is known of a Cornelius Dempsey who was born…
Client: Springfield Lakes Corporation, Ipswich City council Materials: steel, aluminium, stainless steel, lighting and sound Features: 9m high artistic light towers and interactive surround sound audio Completed: 2010 The Robelle Domain site features twelve, nine metre tall light towers layered with custom designed…
Client: Springfield Lakes Corporation Location: Springfield Lakes, Ipswich Completed: December 2010 Materials: Stainless Steel, Cast Aluminium Features: Custom play equipment. Tips 500kgs water several times a minute.
Client: CitySmart, Brisbane City Council Materials: various Features: vintage componentry employed in a working interactive display Completed: December 2009 Working with a timeline of only three weeks, I was to create an interactive display highlighting environmental issues, renewable and energy smart…
Client: Woodford Folk Festival Materials: super capacitors, cast bronze, steel, LEDs, DC generator, copper, brass, stainless steel Features: free energy(the price of some exercise) Completed: December 2008 A human powered pedestrian light. Wind the handle and store electrical energy into the super…
Client: North Lakes Community Centre, Pine Rivers Council Materials: cast polyurethane, aluminum, recycled Australian hardwood, stainless steel fasteners Features: interactive public art, first major work completed using my three axis CNC router, cast aluminium stand Completed: July 2007 These three works were…
Client: Cerebral Palsy League Queensland, Arts Queensland Materials: solar panels, steel, polycarbonate, glass mosaic tiles, aluminium, LEDs Features: grid connected and tracking solar array, 25000 glass mosaic tiles, LED lighting Completed: September 2007 What’s taller than a house, has six legs, is…