Screenshot “Mick, Michael and Timmy Mick” 3:20, 2022©
This is a portrait of my Uncle. The footage I have included in this film were of my last two visits to see him during Covid before he died. He was always full of creativity, and I have endeavoured to show some of it through his knitting, paintings and embroidery, as well as images of him performing in drag.
This is also a short film about memory and objects (knitting, embroidery, paintings, shirts, shorts and photos), and their importance in his life. I have included a photos of him as a toddler, a child and a grown man, as well as a photo of he and I at a family wedding. We were close growing up and we always shared the same passions in art.
“Recalling, quirkiness, memory ... a precious idea...it is memory that makes us who we are, an almost magical alchemy...evocative, urged into presence, be, think, bethink.”
Dr Vicki Crowley, Exhibition catalogue, “Bethink”
https://repository.monash.edu/items/show/39817#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0
AWARDS
Geneve Awards, Official Selection
Experimental Forum, Honorable Mention
Screenshot “Through My Lens” 2022©
I have created my own landscape by ripping, photographing, drawing and painting a changing landscape. Portals are used throughout as a metaphor for a lens.
There are people situated inside the landscape; construction workers, hikers and someone nestled inside the arm of a crane - they are made to look small.
I have been looking at cranes and window cleaners outside tall buildings. Also, mobile/cell towers that appear, and seem to be trying to look like trees in the landscape. Gradually, my awareness of these towers has increased.
AWARDS
Winner, The Advertiser Contemporary Art Award, SALA Festival, 2023.
Experimental Film Fest, Official Selection
35 Girona Film Festival, Official Selection
Jakarta Independent Film Festival, Finalist
Screenshot “Whether World”, 2022 ©
M16 ARTSPACE, Canberra
April 14 - May 7, 2023
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8170933/digital-artists-invite-new-ways-to-look-at-the-world/
“I am between two worlds. In one, I can see humans are crawling on the brown earth, butterflies are communicating with humans. Seeds are growing above the ground as well as underground. To me, trees are more valuable than diamonds. In my world, I float amongst the clouds, smell flowers, and swim underwater like a squid. I am free, and I am not ‘earth bound’. I am not heavy-footed and I don’t need to be always standing upright. I am at one with the weather. I see people communicating with flowers and bees, and flowers and bees communicating right back. I see pigs in all their size and pinkness walking around us. In this world, humans and non-humans co-exist rather than have a hierarchical existence. Humans are no longer at the top of the chain.
In this other world, it is bleak and dark. Flowers, petals and bees are imaginative things. We are now completely covered up as the air is toxic. I look up, and the sky is always dark, and the light is always artificial.” Susan Bruce