Single channel video work first exhibited at the Yokohama Triennale. Transit continues Norrie's interest in the Asia/Pacific, the 'Ring of Fire' and the awe inspired by the immensity of nature and the technology designed to harness it.
1989 / 2009 Part of the ongoing series Videodromes for the Alone created through the artist’s process of retroactive collaboration. This series currently encapsulates both single and multi-channel video works. In these pieces, the artists collaborate with...
1987 / 2008 Part of the ongoing series Videodromes for the Alone created through the artist’s process of retroactive collaboration. This series currently encapsulates both single and multi-channel video works. In these pieces, the artists collaborate with past selves through...
1991 / 2007
1987 / 2007 Part of the ongoing series Videodromes for the Alone created through the artist’s process of retroactive collaboration. This series currently encapsulates both single and multi-channel video works. In these pieces, the artists collaborate with past selves through...
Videodromes For The Alone: Two Figures In A Landscape 1997 / 2008 Part of the ongoing series Videodromes for the Alone created through the artist’s process of retroactive collaboration. This series currently encapsulates both single and multi-channel video works. In these ...
Dis/close poses questions: what is fact and what is the distortion of truth? This work aims to discuss the relationship between the individual and the constant manipulation of facts by the media and governing political powers, which appear to conceal and blindfold the populace. In silence, through a game of...
Landscape studies and the company of an old friend and her new husband, shot in Holland on a family visit, and reflected on in London and Sydney. He speaks of the distance and isolation of living in Australia and Australian's desire for travel. He speaks of the function of landscape...
Matte Rochford, Progressively Degrading Test Patterns, 2012, digital video from VHS with sound, 9:38 min
We underestimate grief’s gifts awakening in us emotional and spiritual intelligence. I found the Yarra River in winter a place of deep comfort as its trees and banks seeped with sadness and soothed me in a way I did not think possible. My father’s death a year ago has been...
Alluvium (1983) Shown at:Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery – Sydney, Australia.26 May–11 June, 1983.
Double Space (1985)Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia. 6-24 August, 1985
Single channel digital videoDuration: 03:17
a.k.a. Synopsis: a.k.a. — “also known as”, an alias, a front, a smokescreen. This short video poses the question: how will we respond when the day of universal surveillance arrives? The answer is simple: never be the same person twice. production details title: a.k.a. video by: Josephine Starrs & Leon Cmielewski...
Moving Graffiti is a stop motion animation that depicts a hand drawn map of the Shoalhaven River, morphing into an Australian Bass fish leaping out of the river. The Bass are in decline due to weirs and dams blocking migration on most of our rivers. Tallowa Dam...
Soundtrack: Benjamin Tinker Film: Matthew Tumbers.
This work thinks about the rings of Saturn and the gaps in between, known as divisions, as moving images spin through fields of space created by the interactive corporeality of 16mm film. In making this work, excerpts of 16mm film have been hand animated by Nikki Walkerden using scratch and...
