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…
Apparatus for Transtemporal Praedicto of Prodigium Futurum
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,…
Apparatus for Expedient Market Deployment – Ananas Comosus
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…
Apparatus for Transtemporal Occurrence of Impending Space
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…
Teabag Jiggler XI
Materials: brass, clock parts, stainless steel Features: revolutionise tea industry Completed: 2013
Apparatus for Non-destructive Transmission of Biological Visualisation
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…
Apparatus for Viewing Transdimensional Mechatronic Variants of a Set Cause #1
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…
Apparatus for Viewing Transdimensional Mechatronic Variants of a Set Cause #2
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…
Apparatus for Viewing Transdimensional Mechatronic Variants of a Set Cause #3
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…
Apparatus for Viewing Transdimensional Mechatronic Variants of a Set Cause #4
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…
CitySmart Display Portals
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…
Wind Me Up Baby
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…
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
15 Puzzle
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…
Tin Town
Client: Queensland Transport Materials: various Features: six buses mounted with miniature cameras and LCD viewing screen with industrial computer control, hand made ‘tin’ buildings, total size 2.5m x 2.5m x 1m Completed: 2006 This installation features a 1950s style toy…
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…
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…