Make it great again, kinetic assemblage with music box (The Stars and Stripes Forever), 2025, 15x12x12cm
North Sydney Art Prize 2017
The Coal Loader, Waverton, 2-17 March 2017
1. Fair Play, 2017, mechanical assemblage, 52x32x35cm
2. Fair Play, detail 1
3. Fair Play, detail 2
4. Fair Play, detail 3
Fair Play, 2017, kinetic assemblage, 52x32x35cm
This work is based on a fair ground shooting gallery and explores the whimsy and dark atmosphere of carnivals. On winding a key on the side of the cabinet a fairground tune plays on a music box whilst a conveyor belt moves and the ducks become moving targets. The Kewpie Dolls in the top layer are prizes for the shooting gallery and run the risk of a stray bullet. The vintage Kewpie Dolls in the kitchen appear to be preparing a meal of roast duck and vegetables. There is a rifle in the corner of the kitchen.
Stella Downer, Fine Art, 5 – 30 July 2016
Group Exhibition 5 July – 30 July 2016
1. America’s Favourite, 2015 kinetic assemblage, 16x11x9cm
2. Puttin’ on the Ritz, 2015 kinetic assemblage, 14x10x9cm
3. Lasso, 2015 kinetic assemblage, 15x10x9cm
4. Jaguar Senorita, 2015, kinetic assemblage, 15x14x7cm
5. The Goose Girl, 2016, kinetic assemblage, 29x42x17cm
Defiance Gallery, Sydney
Stella Downer Fine Art
Deakin University
Deakin University Contemporary small Sculpture Award
30 October – 13 December 2014
Museum of Sydney
Suburban Noir exhibition
30 November 2013 – 6 April 2014
Curator Peter Doyle invited 14 Australian visual artists to create artworks in response to crime scene photographs taken in postwar Greater Sydney between 1954 and 1964 and held in the Justice and Police Museum’s forensic archive. The resulting works are featured in the Suburban Noir exhibition at the Museum of Sydney.
Inspired by several of the crime scene photographs, I created two kinetic assemblages featuring miniature domestic interiors, each housed inside a 1950s tin bathroom cabinet. Although the interiors recreated the scenes depicted in the photographs, the murder victims were absent. Instead, each assemblage suggested the moments immediately before a crime. When the works are wound, the shadows of figures outside pass across the window blinds, suggesting that events are about to unfold.
The exhibition includes works by Vanessa Berry, Dallas Bray, Rhett Brewer, Charles Cooper, Theresa Darmody, Bruce Latimer, Michael Lewy, Frank Littler, Reg Mombassa, Peter O’Doherty, Ken Searle, Susannah Thorne, and Anne Wallace.
1. The Stalker, 2013, 35x29x14cm, mechanical assemblage
2-5. The Stalker, details
6. The Tryst, 2013, 35x29x14cm, mechanical assemblage
7-9. The Tryst, details
The Stalker, detail – work in motion
Defiance Gallery, Sydney
18th Miniature Sculpture Exhibition, Maximus Minimus, 2013
This work was awarded the The Normyle Artists Residency on the Monaro Prize
Blue Mountains Cultural Centre
Keepsake, 13 December 2013 – 27 January 2014.
Curator Rilka Oakley invited artists living in the Blue Mountains to respond to the parallels between the artist collecting for creative inspiration and the tourist collecting souvenirs as reminders of place. Just as artists and tourists travel to the Blue Mountains to capture its striking views and distinctive landscape, artists who live and work in the region collect objects, images and experiences from other places as part of their creative practices.
The other artists participating in the exhibition are David Brazil, Elaine Campaner, Ona Janzen, Mathew Lynn, Judith Martinez, Brad Moore, Janelle Randall-Court, Wendy Tsai and Kayo Yokoyama.
1. View from a Room, 2008, kinetic assemblage, 16x89x19cm,
2. View from a Room, detail 1
3. View from a Room, detail 2
4. View from a Room, detail 3
5. View from a Room, detail 4
6. View from a Room, detail 5
7. View from a Room, detail 6
8. View from a Room, detail 7
9. The Greatest Show on Earth, 2012, kinetic assemblage, 56x36x22cm
10. The Greatest Show on Earth, detail
11. Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? (after Richard Hamilton), 2008, assemblage, 13x31x12cm
12. Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? (after Richard Hamilton), detail
13. Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? (after Richard Hamilton), detail
14. Squibb’s Lullaby, 2011, kinetic assemblage, 22x15x11cm
15. Abduction of Europa (after Rembrandt), 2010, kinetic assemblage, 19x20x13cm
16. Abduction of Europa (after Rembrandt), detail
17. Fly Me to the Moon, 2010, kinetic assemblage, 33x30x15cm
18. Fly Me to the Moon, detail
19. The Wave (after Hokusai), 2008, kinetic assemblage, 7x17x8cm
20. Just For Fun, 2012, kinetic assemblage, 20x29x17xcm
Defiance Gallery, Sydney
17th Annual Miniature Sculpture Show
Tiny Titans & Miniliths, 2012
Briteway Soldier, 2011, kinetic assemblage, 17x12x12cm