My work has always involved working with light as a medium through gold leaf, reflective surfaces, lights and projection of images both still and moving. I also find that I work on series of pieces around specific ideas. Thus works such as the Archaeology of Memory, which was created in the mid to late 1990s toured in Australia and the Philippines and consisted of a series of suspended panels in different media.
The Cenotaph sits in Macquarie Mall in Liverpool. It was opened in 1994 by the Governor of NSW in a large scale dedication ceremony involving miliatray units and ceremony. The work is constructed of a sereis of columns including the concrete Sentry columns, which have casts images of objects to recognise the Liverpool areas involment in peace keeping and conflict around the world. There are 2 rose trellis columns in rememberence. As well as a fallen granite column with texts from archival documents and the large centre column of crosses and one Star of David. The work is laid out in a grass garden based on the cluster of bayonets and surrounded by sandstone blocks engraved with local statements in Darawal. The shadow of the broken column and the base of the fallen column reunite at the rememberance hour through the shadow of the column falling across the base. The body is reunited for that moment and then the sun moves on.
Early works involving light projection include Memories on a Grand Scale. This was a large scale slide projection and sound work on the façade of the Australian Museum. There were approximately 500 images projected from racks of projectors on scaffold in Hyde Park. St Mary’s Cathedral played a carillon of bells shortly before the performance as a ‘caller’ while composer Jon Drummond had developed a sound work with me that was simulcast on local radio and speakers across the park. This was the final of a series of installation I had done as the first artist-in-residence at the Australian Museum.
(image Here Memoires on a Grand Scale)
Later projection works include Palace of Memories—The Kiss. This work was a part of the Biennale of Sydney and was projected from The University of Technology, Sydney onto the ABC building in Ultimo. The images included a series of family super eight films made by my father and I. These included images of the Queensland flood of 1974; family beach parties from the 1970s and images of camping and hunting in the bush. Also a series of slide images of details of peoples tattoos, scares, funerary decorations, cross dressing and each was interspersed with couples kissing.
(Palace of Memories and Arcane Territory)
The Arcane Territory was a projection based on the histories of the buildings and people around Observatory Hill in Sydney. This work involved a sound work, again with Jon Drummond and multiple site slide projection around the buildings on the Hill. I had made images from the collections and activities of S.H. Ervin Gallery, the Historic Houses Trust, Fort Street School and the Observatory.
Singing Up Stones was a sound and image projection and performance on the Sydney Opera House, the Harbour Bridge and light patterns using ships and buildings in Circular Quay. The sound work, again with Jon Drummond was broadcast on local radio and sound systems around the Harbour. The images I had created using the people who work in and for the Opera House as well as a short film I had made based on cross dressing and moving through the city on the Harbour Bridge.
Writing the City is an ongoing series of performance works investigating the stories of Cities. These include works such as a series of billboards through out the CBD railway stations based on texts of invited well known writers stories about Sydney. Including Beth Yhap; Neal Drinnan; James Bradley; Ruby Langford Ginibi; Mackenzie Wark and I wrote a short text on Arthur Stace and Eternity. Further parts of the series included a neon and billboard installation on the corner of Park St and George Street; closing off Macquarie street for a street drawing project linking Hyde Park to Customs House Square and a large scale performance of writing and drawing on the façade of the Brisbane Powerhouse. There were talks, performances, a matchbook series, sky writing and slides in all the cinemas on George Street for the 10 days of the project each year, 1997 til 1999.
The Cenotaph sits in Macquarie Mall in Liverpool. It was opened in 1994 by the Governor of NSW in a large scale dedication ceremony involving miliatray units and ceremony. The work is constructed of a sereis of columns including the concrete Sentry columns, which have casts images of objects to recognise the Liverpool areas involment in peace keeping and conflict around the world. There are 2 rose trellis columns in rememberence. As well as a fallen granite column with texts from archival documents and the large centre column of crosses and one Star of David. The work is laid out in a grass garden based on the cluster of bayonets and surrounded by sandstone blocks engraved with local statements in Darawal. The shadow of the broken column and the base of the fallen column reunite at the rememberance hour through the shadow of the column falling across the base. The body is reunited for that moment and then the sun moves on. 
Singing Up Stones was a sound and image projection and performance on the Sydney Opera House, the Harbour Bridge and light patterns using ships and buildings in Circular Quay. The sound work, again with Jon Drummond was broadcast on local radio and sound systems around the Harbour. The images I had created using the people who work in and for the Opera House as well as a short film I had made based on cross dressing and moving through the city on the Harbour Bridge.
Writing the City is an ongoing series of performance works investigating the stories of Cities. These include works such as a series of billboards through out the CBD railway stations based on texts of invited well known writers stories about Sydney. Including Beth Yhap; Neal Drinnan; James Bradley; Ruby Langford Ginibi; Mackenzie Wark and I wrote a short text on Arthur Stace and Eternity. Further parts of the series included a neon and billboard installation on the corner of Park St and George Street; closing off Macquarie street for a street drawing project linking Hyde Park to Customs House Square and a large scale performance of writing and drawing on the façade of the Brisbane Powerhouse. There were talks, performances, a matchbook series, sky writing and slides in all the cinemas on George Street for the 10 days of the project each year, 1997 til 1999.
