I am currently researching my new project Shiny Shiny World. It is very exciting and difficult to explain the many layers of installations in both real and virtual worlds. This image is a studio test on the beginnings of the layers of drawings, both traditional and in neon, and three dimensional. I am enjoying this work imensly. Uplifting is a word people use when they come to visit. The work negotiates peace as a responsibility between individuals and provides a platform for that to play out. Please contact me directly should you wish to arrange a studio visit. shinyshinyworld@optusnet.com.au

Currently I am researching a range of public art installations that use light and soft forms. I have looked at a number of possible sites to install the Shiny Shiny Girls. I will keep you updated!

Building on my extensive experience in across a range of disciplines, my current project has a working title of Shiny Shiny World.  This project would involve  developing and researching a multi-layered series of interlinked artworks, and creating these works for installation, exhibition and the world wide web. I have previously  created large scale  works such as (as part of the City of Sydney Olympics Strategic Partnerships) and Archaeology of Memory and Writing the CityPalace of Memories both exhibition and performances that toured through Asia and Australia.  These works incorporated national and international cities with diverse creative  forms , including projections of images and sound, ( I was the first person to project onto the sails of the Sydney Opera House),  lit street and Railway platform billboards, performances, paintings, an interactive internet site (now held by the National Library  as a Pandora - project of national significance)  photographs and neon sculptures. (Many of these pieces are now in public and corporate international collections)

My recent focus has been on further developing ideas of space and our everyday occupation of space as a way of breaking down boundaries and changing our expectations of constructed space by having direct interactive import. Thus this work intends  to expand on previous works through utilising ideas that have a social aspect of interaction and understanding. The politics of peace as a personal responsibility underlies the strategic agenda of the works through analysis of everyday encounters transposed into installation works.

The Shiny Shiny World, plays with notions of social interaction with people  such as saying ‘sorry’ in everyday situations.  It would explore  everyday situations such as traffic and people movements. It  would also reflect on  other more overtly political notions of ‘sorry’.  The politics of peace is a subliminal strategy behind the paintings, sculptures and installations of the Shiny Shiny World.  The Shiny Shiny World also is intended to become an interactive website that has personal avatars and different ways of people entering the site, developing a character and participating within the World through gaming and more direct personal exchanges.

I want to explore these  interactions in the real and virtual world.   Some of the games, installations, paintings, exhibitions and ‘happenings’ that happen in the virtual world  will also have real -time parallels where people can be invited to participate in  real installations and events in different parts of the globe.

The Shiny Shiny World will have an underlying demand to explore humanitarian and feminist notions of peace, integrity, hope and wellbeing. This will be developed further through games, the personal codes for the avatars, the real-time installation works that will utilise interactive mechanics, problem solving, sharing food and language development.  It is about a subliminal message of the different levels of communication.  It is about creating a neutral space where people can explore identity without the limitations and complications of the usual cultural frameworks and prejudices.