Category Archives: ART

EXCHANGE – BACHLUTHER is an Australian/German audiovisual art project created for the 500th anniversary of the reformation / the Luther anniversary year 2017. For thousands of years water has played an important role in religious symbolism. Used for cleansing and purification, water often represents life itself. In Baptism, we participate in an eternal offering that has no beginning or end, a virtue of faith that is infinite. Like the Son, The Father and the Holy Spirit, water has it’s own trio of mysterious properties. It can be ice, liquid or mist. Its crystalline structure allows it to take on beautiful patterned…

    Micro Planet is an ongoing exploration into the micro-macrocosm of the natural world. Looking inwards through the lens you are transported to the microscopic scale of nature. When looking through the microscope one starts to imagine alien worlds and planets.  It appears mysterious, strange and cosmic in a similar way to looking outwards through a telescope. Our ability to transcend our human vision through these inventions has allowed us to step outside of the anthropocentric idea of scale, challenging our inherent feeling of being “normal sized”. Instead we find  that we are on a scale that stretches seemingly infinity in both directions,…

Lokrum island. A biodiversity reservation with a history rich in legends. Dubrovnik, Croatia Mysterious Worlds of Science Underground Exhibition Lazareti Gallery in Dubrovnik 22 – 27 July 2016 PSYCHO-ECOLOGY OF ENERGETIC CURSES- soundscape. The Psycho-Ecology of Energetic Curses installation was the outcome of my experimental exploration of the history, in particular the curse, of Lokrum Island, located near the city of Dubrovnik in Croatia. The work was created during the final day of a 10 day Science Underground Academy residency organised by the UR Institute and hosted in the in the Natural History Museum, Dubrovnik, Croatia. I was interested in experimenting with ways of storytelling and passing on myths through sensory…

  A light and dance performance collaboration between a Canadian dancer Lydia Zimmer, an Australian photographer and artist Georgina Campbell and lighting artist Laura Jade. The work was created during an artist in residence program at NES Studios in Skagastrond, Iceland. Laura Jade experimented with phosphorescent powder and light on Lydia’s hands. Lydia’s improvised dance and movement vocabulary  explored the light to create an embodied experience of the aurora borealis. Filmed by Georgina Campbell. Edited and soundscape created by Laura Jade.  …

Kaleido  is a video projection series that is one part of an ongoing collaborative project which explores the intersection of an intimate relationship through experimental film.  Using multiple projectors, mirrors, lighting and live camera feeds a couple attempt to capture the intimacy of their sexual relationship whilst simultaneously negotiating and exploring complex technical concepts. Filmed and Edited by Leslie Marsh.…