love is lemon aestheticsofchance politics of the interior desire mother and c hild cobalt grape grape 2 grape4 grape5 ficus-caria politics of prosperity heart-space strange bunch whatever school What do they know about love? Cull of the Wild Human nature You are either with us or against us branch 3 Arms length funding Missing in Action Adding to the heart debate word of mouth Life Support Evidence footnotes footnotes Hope against hope Extreme individualism Scape 2 untitled untitled This is not a boomerang inside out 1 inside out 2 Uncontrollable laughter untitled untitled magnified Lee Salomone Tarnkappe Lee Saolomone Palast der Republik lee salomone berlin wall lee salomone untitled havoc salomone Salomone salomone salomone saloone salomone salomone salomone salomone salomone salomone

love is possible…love is impossible

Found art series, Berlin, 2008. Digital print, postcard.

lemon

Various metals, paint 25 x 18 x 3cm, 2008. Private collection.

 

 

The aesthetics of chance

365 wire & plastic muselet installation dimensions variable 2005 - 2008

The politics of the interior

Colour type c photograph, 17 x 23 cm, 2007 - 2010

desire

Colour type c photograph, 50 x 33 cm, 2008

Mother and child

bronze, 27 x 22 x 16 cm, 2010

colbalt blue, boats and people

colour c-type photograph, 24 x 36 cm 2006 – 2010

 

Backyard Culture… the question of memory, history and identity

A series of fourteen 10 x 15 cm black & white photographs depicting wine making in my grandfather Pellegrino Salomone's backyard shed. Torrensville, Adelaide, Australia. 1990. In the collection of the Migration Museum, A Division of the History Trust of South Australia

 


ficus carica
from on the other hand series
Type c photograph, 2006, 50 x 50 cm

the politics of prosperity
on the other hand series
Type c photograph, 2007, 50 x 50 cm

heart space
on the other hand series
Type c photograph, 2007, 50 x 50 cm

strange bunch
2007, digital print, hair, grape vine, 75 x 50 cm

what ever
2006, 81 x 61 x 2.5 cm, metal wire, wooden umbrella handle

school
2006, 20 recycled plywood and timber veneers, pyrography, all in private collections,
each piece 73 x 28 x .4 cm

What do they know about love?
Human Nature series. Greenaway Gallery, Adelaide, South Australia 2000-2003. Private collection 56 x 24 x 18cm
Oleander branches, plaster, chroma key blue paint

The cull of the wild
plant fibre, chroma key blue paint, 30 x 42 x 20 cm, 2000

Human Nature
Human Nature series. Greenaway Gallery, 2000-2003
20 piece series wall installation, dimensions variable


you are either with us or against us
/ o stai con noi o stai contra
2001, installation dimensions variable
Oleander branches, chroma key blue paint, sand


branch rationalisation

Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia Adelaide, 1999
dimensions variable
150 Oleander branches, blue flocking

Arms length funding
[RE] Gallery Adelaide, 1993
131 x 20 x 20cm
metal fork, wooden crutch

Missing in Action
Post West Adelaide, 1992, dimensions variable. Private collection.
Text, photography, art newspapers, magazines & newsletters, red wine

Adding to the heart debate
Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia 1993
300 x 200 x 100cm
Garden shrub

Word of mouth

North Adelaide School of Art, 1995
170 x 72 x 61cm
art magazines, twine, grape vine, willow,

Life Support
Gasworks, Melbourne, Australia, 1996
250 x 400 x 150cm
bamboo, twine, earth

Evidence
Nexus Gallery Adelaide, 1997-1999.
356 frottage prints from the streets of Milano Italy,
installation dimensions variable
bitumenex paint on paper

footnotes from a periphery
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
A 15-month project that recreated all the front pages of Adelaide’s local newspaper for 1998. 313 mixed media works on paperwork, installation dimensions variable.

footnotes from a periphery
"Saturday March 21 1998"
1 of 313 mixed media works on newspaper
41 x 29.5cm

Hope against hope
Gallery 4A Sydney, Australia, 2002. Floor installation
dimensions variable. each piece approx 2 x 7 x 4cm
465 Kurrajong seed pods, chroma key blue paint

Extreme individualism
2000, wall installation dimensions variable
101 various sized metals hooks collected from grandfather

scape
Palimpsest, Red Cliffs, Victoria, Australia, 2001
45 mixed media works, 2001-2003
variable dimensions
sandpaper, various paints


untitled 2
from the negative space series
23 x 15 cm sandpaper, paint
2004-2008


untitled
from the negative space series
23 x 24 cm sandpaper, paint
2004-2008


This is not a boomerang
Tin Sheds Gallery Sydney, 2004
each piece approx 30 x 15 x 3.5cm
6 family wooden garden trowels, turmeric

Inside Out
A series of 20 envelopes, 2003 - 2004
23.5 x 12cm
mixed media on paper, envelope, text, digital image

Inside Out
2004, envelope, tracing paper, digital image. 20.7 x 23

uncontrollable laughter
Torrens River Ash. 2006-2008
each piece approx 16cm in dia. x 6cm deep
wood, danish oil,

not on a waning moon #2
Greenaway. 2005-2007. 37 x 27.7 x 4cm, metal, wood. Private collection.

not on a waning moon #1
2005. 24.7 x 36.5 x 2.2cm

Dandelion magnifier
2005, 35 x 29 x 2cm

Tarnkappe
galerie kurt im hirsch, Berlin, 2007. Floor installation, dimensions variable. 10,000 beer bottle tops

Palast der Republik
Rubbing of the Palast der Republik, Schloss Platz, Berlin, 11.11.2005.
22.5 x 27.8 cm. sandpaper, various paints


Berlin Wall
galerie december. Rubbing of the Berlin Wall, Mühlenstrasse, Friedrichshain, Berlin. 14.11.2005. 11.5 x 11.5 cm, sandpaper, various paints.


untitled havoc
Rubbing of Susan Norrie’s installation HAVOC at the 52nd Venice Biennale, Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, Venice, Italy, 2007. 18.5 x 11.5 cm. sandpaper, various paints, pencil

what comes around
1 wooden bread board, 7 wire clothes hangers
57 (h) x 55 (w) x 1.5 (d) cm
2007

 


on a waning moon
Ivy, fasteners, Danish oil, Italian wooden measuring ruler
121 (h) x 75 (w) x 2.5 (d) cm
2006 – 2008. Photo by Michal Kluvanek.


sorrow
wooden bread board, black ochre, red ochre
28 (h) x 38 (w) x 2 (d)cm. Private collection.
13-02-2008. Photo by Michal Kluvanek.


country
various garden hoses, reverse side of laminex table top
80.5 (h) x 170 (w) x 1.5 (d) cm
2008
.Photo by Michal Kluvanek.


I see the moon and the moon sees me
wood & metal spade handle, metal, ochre
77 (h) x 12 (w) x 3.5 (d) cm
2008. Photo by Michal Kluvanek.


I should be all the things i am not
found pine wood, bronze pieces based on pods from the Kurrajong tree, Brachychiton populneum.
41 (h) x 24 (w) x 2 (d) cm
2006 – 2010. Photo by Michal Kluvanek.


not on a waning moon #4
wood & metal shovel handle, wire, ochre
81 (h) x 24 (w) x 4 (d) cm
2006 – 2008
.Photo by Michal Kluvanek.

 


The geometry of chance
unknown wood, Danish oil, brass stirrer attachment from an industrial planetary mixer
1480 (h) x 34 cm in diameter
2005 – 2008
.Photo by Michal Kluvanek.


The geometry of chance #2
unknown wood, Danish oil, metal whisk attachment from an industrial planetary mixer
1270 (h) x 34 cm in diameter
2005 – 2008.Photo by Michal Kluvanek.


saplings
unknown tree, Danish oil
4 pieces, 38 (h) x 11.5 cm diameter, 53 (h) x 12.5 (dia.) 60 (h) x 13 (dia) 79 (h) x 13 (dia)
2005 – 2008. Photo by Michal Kluvanek.

 


ghost gum
carved Australian Eucalyptus, blue flocking
97 (h) x 28 cm in diameter
2005
.Photo by Michal Kluvanek.


one day it will all make sense
1600 misprint run of Broadsheet, Contemporary Art magazine. Vol 21 No 1 March 1992, other Broadsheet, Agenda, The Adelaide Review, Artlink Grandmother’s metal hoe & hand trowel and glass.
80 x 122 x 40.5 cm 1959 - 2008.
Photo by Michal Kluvanek. Glass by Bettina Visentin.

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