Click [2015]
Click (2015) Interactive installation: Wood, cardboard, newspaper, remote clicker, TV, App, Mouse: 110 x 45 x 68cm In Click, a functional oversized mouse made of wood and cardboard and a hidden remote clicker sits on the floor at a distance in front of a fairly small TV screen. The screen features a watermarked stock image […]
What’s goin’ on? [2015]
What’s goin’ on? (2015) interactive object: recycled cardboard, paper, foam core, headphones, smartphone, selfie stick 132 x 80 x 45cm What’s goin’ on? directly references a well-known and reoccurring video meme nicknamed ‘He-man sings’[1]. Taking one memorable scene from the video, I reconstruct it into a physical form. At one end of the work sits a set of […]
Progressive Action [2015]
Progressive Action (2015) Interactive object: Cardboard, plastic bottle, tissue, selfie stick, wooden rod, self-inking stamp, string140 x 85 x 28cm In the work Progressive action, I use a play on expectations to create a distancing effect. The work resembles a sort of miniature catapult. A mock Molotov cocktail appears ready to be projected by […]
I made this [2015]
I made this (2015) Interactive object: recycled cardboard, smartphone, app 25 x20 x 2.5 cm The work I made this compromises of a miniature cardboard sign with a smartphone set within it. On the phone is an app. The background is a photo of the area of cardboard the phone replaces with the words ‘I’M SO […]
Political Automatons: Artist’s Statement
The chattering onslaught of almost-daily political polling has become a droll background to our everyday lives. In these works Edmonds had used the already outmoded detritus of the morning newspaper to fabricate the already outmoded detritus of yesterday’s political policy making. Like wind-up toys form a former epoch, these artefacts parody the power and control […]
‘We need more flags’ [2015]
‘We need more flags’ (2015) Mixed Media automaton his automaton is from a series that looks at the spectacularisation and aestheticisation of Australian politics in the media. Each automaton refers to specific media events or what I perceive as constructed ‘images’ surrounding political figures that are circulated by mass and social media. With their dependence […]
They liked the onion [2015]
They liked the onion (2015) 28.5 x16x17cm, mixed media automaton This automaton is from a series that looks at the spectacularisation and aestheticisation of Australian politics in the media. Each automaton refers to specific media events or what I perceive as constructed ‘images’ surrounding political figures that are circulated by mass and social media. The work […]
Wild Clive [2014/15]
Wild Clive (2015) 35 x 23.5 x 21cm, mixed media automaton An investigation into the state of the news media industry and a look at the current Australian political climate has led to the creation of these automaton objects. The premise behind these works is that the lies propagated, the accusations thrown, the showmanship […]
On the wing [2014]
On the wing (2014) 33x20x17cm, mixed media automaton An automaton made predominantly from foam core, cardboard and newspaper commenting on Australian news media’s role in circulating the myth of a federal debt crisis, an idea propagated by the Australian Liberal Party in order to sway the Australian public to vote in their favour. This automaton […]
Confronting, Shirt-fronting [2014]
Confronting, shirt-fronting (2014) 32x20x8cm, mixed media automaton This automaton is from a series that looks at the spectacularisation and aestheticisation of Australian politics in the media. Each automaton refers to specific media events or what I perceive as constructed ‘images’ surrounding political figures that are circulated by mass and social media. Through the mechanism that requires the […]