Location: Pacific Paradise, Sunshine Coast QueenslandMaterials: Recycled Australian Hardwood Timber, Weathering steelCompleted: 2018 In coastal forests, trees grow strong in the sand and are buffeted by coastal gales. Their strength and resilience can be attributed to a messy complexity found underground. This generously…
Unfurling
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…
Canungra
Artists: Russell Anderson + Rebecca Ward Location: Canungra, QueenslandMaterials: Weathering steel, stainless steel, concreteCompleted: 2017 The spectacular topography of the scenic-rim into which is nestled the town of Canungra is the subject of this prominent gateway marker. The contoured weathering steel resembles a…
iDIDIT!
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…
Maryborough Match Making Machine
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…
Apparatus for Transtemporal Relocations of Impending Space
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,…
Sandcastle Competition
Client: Camille Serisier and Brisbane City Council Location: Wynnum, Brisbane, Queensland Features: Microwave sensor driven rgbw led lighting Materials: Powder-coated stainless steel rusted steel and concrete Completed: 2015 Artplusdesign project managed and manufactured this commission by Camille Serisier for Brisbane City Council. Taking the form…
Lighter-than-Air Concrete
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.…
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…
Apparatus for Germination of Achaemienis Ambulatii (Pony Plant)
Client: Brisbane City Council Location: City Botanic Gardens, Brisbane Features: multi-level sandpits catering to a variety of children’s wheelchair heights Materials: Stainless steel, bronze, copper, custom water dripping system Completed: 2014 The Apparatus for Germination of Achaemienis Ambulatii (Pony Plant) is a sculpture in my…
The Ponds Seating
Client: Landcom Location: The Ponds, Blacktown, Sydney NSW Completed: 2012 Features: Fabricated by prisoners at Parklea Correctional Centre Materials: Mild steel, stainless steel, custom-made ceramic tiles: The project involved the design and fabrication of functional art seating by prisoners at…
Noosa Wallum Seats
Client: Sunshine Coast Regional Council Location: Noosa Features: Local flora Materials: Custom cast aluminium, CNC cut Australian recycled hardwood timber Completed: 2013 The custom cast aluminium legs of the seats feature a relief created from a photograph of reed round in local wallum swamp. The…
Noosa Reed Seat
Client: Sunshine Coast Regional Council Location: Noosa Features: supporting vertical steel rods inspired by the patterns in local reeds Materials: Stainless steel, CNC cut Australian recycled hardwood timber Completed: 2013
Noosa Town Clock
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…
Teabag Jiggler XI
Materials: brass, clock parts, stainless steel Features: revolutionise tea industry Completed: 2013
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,…
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…