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Solo exhibition at Craft Gallery, Canberra, ACT
April 1 – May 7, 2011
‘This exhibition displays my continuing development and explorations into the progress of technology and its relationship with nature. The exhibition is an exploration of the world around me and of the values that I struggle to keep in balance in my own life.
When I started thinking about ‘Machine in the Garden’ my first thoughts were limited to the garden or veggie patch, and the machines that are used to assist and manipulate nature to grow and harvest food and bounty from the natural world. Upon further thinking I now see ‘Machine in the Garden’ as a statement about people and our relationship with the planet as a whole. The machines are you and me; they are the cars, roads, buildings, planes, boats, diggers, trucks, concrete, sky-rises - all the man made and unnatural things that we have created in this world. The garden is the natural world itself; rivers, oceans, land, trees, plants, animals, insects, fruits and vegetables. The part that I am interested in is where 'the Machine' meets 'the Garden' - where and how they interact.
Solo exhibition at Craft Gallery, Canberra, ACT
‘This exhibition displays my continuing development and explorations into the progress of technology and its relationship with nature. The exhibition is an exploration of the world around me and of the values that I struggle to keep in balance in my own life.
When I started thinking about ‘Machine in the Garden’ my first thoughts were limited to the garden or veggie patch, and the machines that are used to assist and manipulate nature to grow and harvest food and bounty from the natural world. Upon further thinking I now see ‘Machine in the Garden’ as a statement about people and our relationship with the planet as a whole. The machines are you and me; they are the cars, roads, buildings, planes, boats, diggers, trucks, concrete, sky-rises - all the man made and unnatural things that we have created in this world. The garden is the natural world itself; rivers, oceans, land, trees, plants, animals, insects, fruits and vegetables. The part that I am interested in is where 'the Machine' meets 'the Garden' - where and how they interact.