After Life.
Art Gallery of Regina.
Curator: Jack Anderson
Something and Nothing.
Noxious Sector Projects. Seattle. USA.
Photo credit Ted Hiebert.
Gordon Snellgrove Gallery.
Saskatoon.
Curator Marcus Miller.
Pirate Radio Station. Woody Point. Newfoundland and Labrador.
While on a residence in Gros Mourne Park I set up a pirate radio station.
It played sea shanties and information about pirates that I made up.
The radius was around 50 ft and would only be picked up as you drove by, replacing your tunes for mine.
Unpacked And Reheated. With Brenden Fernandes.
Open Space Artist Run Center. Victoria. BC.
Gordon Snellgrove Gallery.
Saskatoon.
Curator: Marcus Miller.
Song for Peter
Song for Peter. Detail.
Song for Peter. Detail.
Tree on Allenford
Tree on Allenford
Seven Vans and Cristoph.
Seven Vans and Cristoph
Seven Vans and Cristoph
Seven Vans and Cristoph
The Van At the Ministry of Casual Living
The Van Broken Down
Lovett and Buffett.
Rogue Art. Victoria. BC.
An Exhibition with Tamsin Clark.
Curator Debra Debore.
After rebuilding the boat a series of unheroic journeys were made around Vancouver Island.
The boat transoms were made using full scale plans adopting the method of cold molding mahogany planks.
These were set hovering 3ft away from the wall the backs were coloured neon blue, green, orange and yellow which threw a coloured ora onto the wall. The works were titled with paradise island destinations romantasized by the songs of Jimmy Buffett. In the background was the sound of waves breaking on a beach.
I was thinking of this work as a kind of transformation from the work to a real sail boat. Rich patrons would by the works giving me the means to buy the sailboat I would use to make larger journeys. A kind of trading up, using my artist skills to gain things in the real world.
Rouge Art. Victoria. BC
Car Trouble.
Pearl Street Projects. Thunder Bay. Ontario.
My car was known around Thunder Bay because it was the smallest car in town.
It developed an oil leak that left a large mark on the driveway to pearl street projects.
When I left Thunder Bay I put the sculpture on the site. It was a presence of absence.
The work was later removed and shown at the Thunder Bay art Gallery along with my beard presented in a box.
Artificial Clouds. Ongoing. Video Projection.
TRU Gallery. Kamloops. BC.
While burning things, video footage was shot of the clouds as they rose into the sky, expanding and joining with the atmosphere. The footage is shown as a projection.
Tracks. 12x12inches. Plexiglass. . Tracks is a series of what I’m referring to as Conceptual LPs or sound recordings. They consist of plexi glass squares 12x12 inches of varying colours. Each piece is put on a specially made turntable and the sound is cut in using various tools such as nails or sandpaper. As the series progresses the albums are becoming more complex by adding one cut over another. For example one cut of rough sandpaper over laid with a track cut with piece of glass. In this sense they are becoming more like compositions.
The time it takes to record, sound on tracks plus what I was listening to at the time of making is scribed in the middle. Each Platter is framed in a shadow box. It addresses music collecting and also how the identity of this pursuit is changing with newer technologies and what these technologies make possible. I see the Plexiglas LPs as a low tech version of what is happening with computer programs like garage band were the tools to produce your own recordings are in everyone’s hands.
Paradise. 2008. Ministry of Casual Living.
Video Projection to be back projected onto store font windows at night.
