CAITLIND r.c. BROWN & WAYNE GARRETT CLOUD 11.

500 x 230 x 400 cm

6,000 light bulbs, pull chain switches, electronics, hand bent steel, LED light bulbs

About the Work

CLOUD is an interactive sculpture created from 6,000 incandescent light bulbs. The piece uses pull chain switches and everyday domestic globes, re-imagining their potential to create a collaborative, experiential environment. Viewers can work as a collective to animate “lightning” on the surface of the sculpture. Simple, bright, and playful, CLOUD is a barometer of social interaction, chaos, collaboration, and collective action. On a symbolic level; CLOUD relies on the universal language of environmental imagery – despite cultural differences, rain clouds are understood by people all around the world.

This edition of CLOUD was commissioned by Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow.

About the Artists

Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett are Canadian artists working with artificial light, experimental spaces, and architectural debris. Their public artworks invite participants to share in strange moments, one step beyond everyday experience. Using mass-produced objects to reference cities as an immeasurable quantity of materials and situations, their work provokes a critical shift in perspective. Beautiful, subversive, playful, and radically inclusive, their practice emphasizes transformation above all else.

Brown & Garrett’s work has appeared internationally, most notably at Japan Alps Festival (Japan), Weisman Art Museum (USA), Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (Russia), Pera Museum (Turkey), and art festivals throughout Europe.

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Caitlind r.c. BROWN & Wayne GARRETT

CLOUD 2013

This edition of CLOUD was commissioned by Garage Museum of Contemporary Art for Art Experiment 2013 (Moscow)

Vanessa STANLEY Your Altered Gaze Returned

280 x 280 x 40 cm

Mirrored acrylic, stainless steel

About the Work

An observatory of multiple convex and concave mirrors collects and manipulates the reactions of people and nature using light, space and time. Play emanates as the returned gaze is altered.

About the Artist

An interdisciplinary visual artist, Stanley aims to reinterpret the hidden, intangible spaces of the environment and scientific research to intrigue and affect viewer's perception through interaction.

Alison McDONALD Making Waves

200 x 1000 x 50 cm

SIM cards, cable ties, steel cables

About the Work

Making Waves utilises thousands of discarded SIM cards joined together to form hexagonal cell-like grids, which then form two elongated waves, (transmit and receive). At night under flash there is an unexpected discovery revealed.

About the Artist

Alison McDonald is a Townsville-based artist who creates artworks that explore and inspire social change by combining her passions of recycling and the environment. She completed a Masters of Art in Public Space at RMIT University in 2011 and holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Hons) from JCU.

Fiona QUIN

Story Chairs… Story Chairs… What Do You Hear?

An Artwork in Four Locations

Various

Mixed Media

About the Work Story Chairs... Story Chairs... What Do You Hear? is an interactive installation artwork that fuses sculpture, visual art, storytelling, and technology. This artwork is a set of four Story Chairs in four separate locations on The Strand. Each Story Chair will share with you a fascinating and interesting story. Come and enjoy looking at, sitting on, listening to, and interacting with the Story Chairs.

About the Artist

Fiona Quin is a local artist, storyteller, teacher, and computer scientist. She enjoys bringing stories to life through mixing art and technology.

MJ RYAN BENNETT Ebb and Flow

Part 1: 85 x 170 x 170 cm

Part 2: 170 x 170 x 170 cm

Steel, stainless steel, fibreglass, cable, plastic, wood

About the Work

Ebb and Flow; a recurrent pattern of coming and going or decline and regrowth. This composition looks at the recurring pattern formed when a singular entity joins on mass, just like the waves that are surging into the shore and receding back to the sea. This idea is recreated in the form of a suspended sphere and half-sphere. The half-sphere sits on the grass whilst suspended above is the sphere. The two forms work in unison as one piece; as if the half-sphere once complete would join the other in a continuous cycle.

About the Artist

Born Sydney 1970, MJ studied Applied Art majoring in Gold and Silver Smithing at Monash University, Melbourne. She continued her studies as a design associate within the metal studio at the JamFactory, Adelaide. She has since diversified and gone into public art and participated in five Strand Ephemera exhibitions.

Joy HEYLEN The Crab

168 x 428 x 320 cm

Corten steel, black steel

About the Work

The inspiration for this sculpture was a play on scale - creating a GIANT crab. Utilising Corten as the base orange material with a blend of black steel, which will age and colour naturally in the marine environment. The framework for the crab is built with a skeleton of black steel and skinned in a Corten metal layer of 56 meters and weighing in at 256 kgs for the skin alone, finished in a steampunk look. There is a play on hard metal with a blend of lace metal (laser-cut organic shapes) with hardedge geometric industrial design which creates a feminine and masculine intrigue.

About the Artist

Joy Heylen (born in South Africa) studied Fine Arts and 3D Objects in New Zealand from where she and her family emigrated to Australia. Heylen and her husband Patrick, create works that are a blend of engineered art and have exhibited internationally. They have a workshop in Toowoomba and a studio in Brisbane from where they create works for commercial and architectural companies.

John NESIRKY

Look Again

250 x 280 x 200 cm

Marine plywood, brass and gunmetal fastenings, copper, embossing leather, antique keyholes

About the Work

The twelve sides represent the division of time. The keyholes allow viewing of the internal screen which gives a reverse upended image of where the sculpture is pointed. The connecting disk prevents direct comparison from the keyhole to the forward view. We must step round to Look Again at what is there, hopefully with fresh eyes as we often take for granted our immediate and unique surroundings.

About the Artist

John Nesirky is a Townsville-based boatbuilder and sculptor. Nesirky's sculptures are a result of a lifelong curiosity of form and function; the skeleton of a bird, the strakes of a traditional timber boat, the beautiful fragility disguising a violin's strength and acoustic intensity. Nesirky was born in London and raised in Oxfordshire, where he studied art and started working with wood. His work reflects his training in boatbuilding and musical instrument construction, and he has been working as a shipwright in Townsville for the last 22 years.