my contribution
I was a named core collaborator on Finitude (Mallee: Time) - credited on the work's cover materials alongside the other principal collaborators. My contribution spanned imagery creation, conceptual development, and visual world-building: translating the ecological, temporal, and philosophical concerns of the work into its visual form. This was not a technical or support role - my creative involvement was integral to the work at the level of its conception and making.
about the work
Finitude (Mallee: Time) was an immersive interactive installation meditating on ecological time, deep history, and the slow rhythms of the Mallee scrub - one of Australia's most ancient and threatened landscapes. The work asked participants to inhabit a different relationship to time: not the accelerated time of digital culture, but the geological-scale time of a biome older than memory.
My imagery formed the work's visual world: organic forms, time-lapse sequences, and digital environments that gave shape to the ecological and temporal themes at the heart of the work. My visual contribution was inseparable from the conceptual stakes of the piece - the images were not illustration, but argument.
The work was presented at Gallery Artisan Brisbane, Screen Space Melbourne, and the Mildura Palimpsest #8 festival - a major platform for experimental and installation art in regional Australia.
credits
core collaborator
Stuart Lawson
artistic direction
Keith Armstrong
collaborators
Dean, Pack (named alongside Armstrong and Lawson)
exhibition history
2013
Screen Space, Melbourne
Melbourne premiere
2012–13
Mildura Palimpsest #8, Mildura
Major platform for experimental installation art in regional Australia
2012
Gallery Artisan, Brisbane
World premiere
related documents
Finitude catalogue 2013
Exhibition catalogue for the Melbourne presentation. Documents the collaborative framework and my named contribution.
Mildura Palimpsest 8 - programme
Festival programme for Mildura Palimpsest #8 including Finitude.
Gallery Artisan exhibition invitation
Opening night invitation for the world premiere at Gallery Artisan Brisbane, featuring my imagery.