From little things big things grow (2017)
Installation views and details at Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne. Mixed media sculptural installation: Found wooden objects, pine, Tasmanian oak, jelutong, balsa, bamboo, MDF, cotton, nylon, yoga mat, adhesives, acrylic paint and varnishes, spray paint. Dimensions variable (each sculpture approx. 60x60x160cm). Photos: Matthew Stanton.
‘From Little Things Big Things Grow’ is a sculptural installation that reflects on how contemporary drives towards a more cultural, environmental and political awareness in Australia have been used by corporations to market their products. Drawing on the famous protest song by Paul Kelly and Kev Carmody, the installation asks whether such cultural resistance can escape being appropriated, commodified and sold back to us as gentrified lifestyle packages. In the installation, these products and the cultural objects they reference are reassembled and remixed as strange hybrid sculptural propositions that slip between materiality, found and fabricated forms through slick reconstruction. Shape-shifting between home furnishings, totems, makeshift armatures and props, the sculptures reflect on the complex and often contradictory repurposing of cultural resistance in a contemporary Australian context.