Marine life

Low relief toughened glass marine theme panels 600mm ( to be fitted). In these a flatter more graphic pictorial relief lends well to the toughening process.

ARMADALE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL QUIET ROOM PANEL

Themes to be addressed were memory, community and the site.

I proposed that the site that contains the community of Armadale itself has a memory and I chose a 200 million year old ammonite fossil from the site to represent the memory of a life in the landscape and this, coupled with the human figure, represents a continuity of life on the site from that time to the present day. The two are united in time spinning on a tide of memory.

I wanted to address the themes of contemplation, meditation and healing in the Quiet Room. The process of the quiet room is that of contemplation and meditation allowing a healing process

The structure of the ammonite fossil replicates the structure of the cochlea, (the inner ear). Its inward spiralling, to me, represents an inner listening to memories allowing a meditative healing process.

The outward direction of the spiral represents coming out of this meditative state, engaging with the world and listening to others memories and stories, the layering of which constructs the culture of the community.

Although the fossil has been extinct for hundreds of millions of years people recognise it as a familiar part of their present surroundings.

In the artwork I wanted to address, not just the theme of the building and the community, but what surrounds it that can be linked to why we do science, art and have a spiritual consciousness, that have all created the chapel and the hospital.

The so-called big bang of human intelligence started with the first humans picking up shells on a beach and wearing them, so this was the beginning of seeing symbolic meaning in the everyday, and in nature.

And so the long march of sound becoming language and music, tool making and a sense of awe in their own existence.

The memory of the human condition in the world.

Six organic undulating glass panels 1100mm x 350mm mounted on stainless steel stand offs. Stand offs come in many different lengths and widths and can be fitted to masonry or timber. The clients wanted a piece that gave a sense of both a waterfall and a group of trees.

Marine Movement

I wanted to share with the client an interest in the natural world.

With this piece I wanted to evoke a sense of contemplation and to address the point between movement and stillness; of pattern, order and random spontaneity. The clients had built a house overlooking the sea in the south of W.A.

The piece is set into a glass brick wall in the bathroom, allowing light and privacy. The fish, cast from the sea gives significance to the site and their connection with that natural world.

Tidal pool partition

The design represents rippled sand in shallow water with fossil and marine relief

Wall panel

Fossils with blue dicroic glass. 900mm x 800mm