Luminous Presence is a 1x1.5m digital hologram composed of thousands of frames of 3D computer graphic images, which demonstrates through animation of surface fragmentation, transparency and reflectivity, a comparison with the "scintillating" effects of gilded panel painting and gold mosaic in early Italian art. Luminous Presence featured as part of...
Rainbow hologram hand embossed to polished cast bronze mirror. Mirror Mirror is a holographic portrait of Graeme Murphy AM, esteemed choreographer and dancer. This portrait combines aspects of early caryatid mirrors (Egyptian, Greek and Roman), and was a form of holographic research into Chinese magic mirrors and other illusory...
A 3D print work as part of Monochrome at Sheffer Gallery. A 3D scan was taken of a human palm, then the Holoshop haptic interface was used to trace the life-line of the palm. The model was then continually rotated and traced, creating the crystaline nest structure.
The Shrine of the Sacred Heart was a highly original hologram, allowing the viewer to experience a simulated vision by feeling suspended in space over the inverted dome of the church. Commission for St Brigid’s Church, Sydney.
Holographic Installation. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
To Absent Friends is the world's largest laser trasmission hologram and was awarded the Grand Prix of the First High Tec Art Biennale in Nagoya, Japan in 1989. For this work Paula recreated a traditional Australian pub bar within the isolation of of the National Acoustics Laboratory in Sydney, as well...
Partly fictitious and partly autobiographical, Destiny Deacon’s world is populated by a cast of dolls, family and friends who enact ‘soap opera’ vignettes (1). She dramatises human comedies and tragedies within invented and fabricated dioramas, her entourage accompanied by masks, props and costumes revealing human foibles....
