Midnight Bear on Ice This work is from the Series of photographs and mixed media on show on the 2nd floor of Customs House in Circular Quay as a part of a larger exhibition ATTLA (Snow that makes beautiful Pictures as it Falls). This show includes a large sculpture with projections and light effects as well as a selection of films I have made in the Arctic.
All works are for sale through Rex-Livingston Art Dealer in Surry Hills.
During July/August 2007 I had an artist-in-residency on the Kapitan Khlebnicov voyaging through the North West Passage and through the High Artic. During this time I created an installation using sound and digital images projected over a handmade paper iceberg. This work has been recreated as The Truth About Sno Domes at the Gold Coast City Gallery, and Bundaberg Regional Galleries with special private screenings at the Taomina Film Festival and the upcoming St Tropez Film Festival.
Floating Ice #1 was a finalist in the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Awards, while the painting Swimming Between Coogee and the Arctic in my Mind was in the Waterhouse Natural History Prize at the South Australian Museum. PARIS ANGELS is my new exhibition at David Rex Livingston Gallery and uses some of the images from the Cite International des Arts residency in Paris. The works are giclee prints on canvas and mixed media.
I have always worked with light as both a real element of the work and a metaphorical element for changing matter in an almost alchemist sense: light can be used to turn dross to gold. These works are layered with both real and fake images of decadence and things of lustre. They have hidden and revealing texts that question the relationship of the maker and the viewer to the idea of light—or enlightenment.
IVU (Frozen Tsunami)
This works is located on the Ground floor of Customs House and floats above the glass floor and model of Sydney. The work is about the ironic beauty of the apocalyspe due to man made Climate Change effects. Also it references a larrakin Australian joke when Dick Smith and John Singleton made a bet about icebergs coming up the Harbour. Dick Smith covered a barge in foam and had himself towed in front of the Opera House. Projections and perspex sculpture.
This work is for sale through David Rex-Livingston Art Dealer
Paris Angels includes a selection of multiples. They are tiny lightboxes on keyrings. The works have a selection of angels that have been manipulated and display their own slide show of approx. 50 to 70 images in each box. They are highly prized multiples and can be purchased through Rex-Livingston Gallery. Dr Anderson's previous multiples have included matchboxes, fortune cookies and pens. These works are been included in large private and corporate collections as well as the National Archive and the National Gallery Library Collection.