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.