Byproducts II
16/10-8/11 2026
Prop, 2026. Bamboo poles, eucalypt and white cedar branches, jute rope, shale rocks, beeswas, plaster. 210x480x337cm .
This exploration followed from an exhibition in 2024 at SLOTprojects, where the use of found materials began— mainly manufacturing byproducts and matter selected from the natural environment. The subject of investigation became the tension between impermanence and anchorage, where materials, conditioned for their original intent, retain attributes that continue to shape their behaviour in the process of adapting to their new
Between heaven and earth, 2026, packaging cardboard, beeswax, pigments, plaster,
hessian, 230x360x77cm
configuration. What draws me to them is what they already carry and their physical presence: histories of function, labour, consumption, exchange; weight, texture, a resistance that, worked against, opens onto the possibility of reorientation.
A rudimentary, ephemeral quality runs through how things are joined, set against surfaces that feel distinctly contemporary. The contrast is deliberate. Assemblage courts unexpected, clumsy encounters between disparate elements, loosely bound into new relation. The work sits on a spectrum between intention and response, neither predetermined nor resolved.
Looking and making become a process for acquiring transformative knowledge, practised through materials, offering insight into how experience is understood. This is not resolved work but a record of transformation: accumulated decisions, material tensions, moments of resolution, at times makeshift, held briefly in time. It remains open to change, held between construction and deconstruction, stability and flux, where transformation is not an endpoint but an ongoing condition.
Primed and waxed for promises, 2024. Gesso ground, beeswax and pigment on packaging cardboard. 174x48cm. (left) Forebear, 2026. Found cardboard box with bamboo pole support. 247x163x20cm
Installation view. Photography by Fiona Little @fionalittleart courtesy Canberra Contemporary.
The makeshifters, 2024-2026, packaging cardboard, clayboard, watercolour paper, canvas strips, graphite paint, pigments and beeswax, 190x145x12 cm
