In Waiting
Phoenix (The Garden That Could Have Been)
2019
A reflective, experiential and perceptual play. Mirror and glass fracture and reflect a garden, creating the illusion of depth and ambiguity necessary in the narrow, enclosed space.
Fragility is amplified inside the solid masonry walls as the garden becomes a breathing space and an expression of nature. A breath of water, air and green squeezed between two strong architectural forms. The garden brings the materials and forms of the buildings inside the garden, warping and overlaying the architecture with plants and their reflection.
Parliament: An Island in An Island
Glenorchy Art and Sculpture Park, 2016
Parliament is a proposal for a new public artwork, situated at the Glenorchy Art and Sculpture Park site. It is an artwork that takes the form of a small island to be located just off the shore of the park in the shallows of the Derwent River, in Elwick Bay.
The island is to be a meeting of two constructed environments, two ‘houses’. The upper house is terrestrial, taking the form of a small tiered landform and planted with specific vegetation and designed to attract and accommodate bird populations of the area as well as indicate seasonal transitions. The lower house is submerged around its edge - a constructed reef designed to support aquatic communities and offer new habitat to these river lifeforms.
In collaboration with with Tega Brain and Anna Ewald-Rice.