Digital video, sound, 4:16 minutes
Under the Pump captures the colour-blocked anatomy of petrol stations and big industry. Tessa Rex’s compositions show a cinematic consideration for the distinct shapes of oil-driven infrastructure, and how they occupy peripheral spaces. ...
Auckland NZ and El Centro California USA
Matte Rochford, Progressively Degrading Test Patterns, 2012, digital video from VHS with sound, 9:38 min
3 channel synchronised digital video projection, colour, sound.
Joan Ross is an artist with a long history of dissecting Australia’s colonial past. Her works include sculpture and installation, painting, drawing and video. In her recent series, BBQ this Sunday, BYO, Ross returns to this theme with a series of colonialist adaptations of the paintings of Joseph Lycett, an...
Drawing on my experiences of living in Norway and learning Norwegian, Untitled # 1 (fish) is a self-portrait performance video that investigates a partner’s influence on learning a language through learning how to fillet a fish. Not simply exploring the idea of being lost in translation, it examines the interpretation and...
As a visual artist with an interest in screen based work, my focus is to demonstrate how sound enhances the success of the moving image. Since having been introduced to the work of Stan Brakhage (1933-2003), the realisation that the moving image can be much more than linear storytelling, on par...
SP Beta video, colour, 5:11 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...
Saki Satom, Japan, M. Station Run, 5 mins, 1998
Naval Novella demystifies the Navy breaking down some of the barriers that exist between Defence personnel and civilians. The film shows the human side of the Royal Australian Navy uniquely allowing people to access...
PLAY featured the work of ten leading Australasian video artists who explore the relationship between the documentary aspects of video and its formal, fluid qualities to capture the performative elements of everyday life. These artists share an interest in the extent to which...
Alluvium (1983) Shown at:Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery – Sydney, Australia.26 May–11 June, 1983.
Double Dream (1985)Videotape (media critical narrative) and video installation. Sound track from environmental sound sampled on Fairlight CMI
Double Space (1985)Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia. 6-24 August, 1985
Shown at Don't Look Gallery, Sydney, 2007.
Single channel digital videoDuration: 03:17
