Quarantine Manipulator [2014]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K_G_pc3VS4 Quarantine Manipulator (2014) Interactive installation Quarantine Manipulator is an interactive installation exploring various ideas concerning the relationship between the masses and the manipulator and scientific knowledge, power and propaganda. The work plays on the aesthetics of a scientific ‘quarantine isolator,’ used by scientists to test and experiment with substances that might be harmful to […]
News Factory [2014]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbGuBFhzMz8 News Factory (2014) New media installation, 2 projections onto suspended object, 3:26 and 0:43 min News Factory addresses concerns regarding the news industry, particularly the manipulation of the masses through the distortion of information. It investigates underlying issues such as the implications of ‘commercial logic’, the infestation of PR content, the irony of PR today and […]
Faux [2014]
Faux (2014) 76x58cm, pastel, conte, charcoal, ink on Stongehenge paper, $975 I got to like him more and fear him less now that…there’s nothing he can do to put me in power or not put me in power… Tony Blair (Sutherland .J, Murdoch, 2013) Investigating distortion in the news media, Faux looks up at media mogul […]
Murdocracy [2014]
Murdocracy (2014) at Jugglers Artspace Fortitude Valley, Brisbane In progress
Reaper [2014]
Reaper (2014) 58 x 76cm pastel, conte, charcoal, ink on paper
Bernays [2014]
Bernays (2014) 76x58cm, pastel, conte, charcoal, ink on Stonehenge paper, $950 A portrait of Edward Bernays (1891-1995) who coined the term ‘public relations’. In the 1920s he theorised that without an invisible ruling power that ‘manipulated the organised habits and opinions of the masses’, democracy would fail and irrational thought and animalistic forces would consume […]
Rupert [2013]
Rupert (2013) 58 x 76cm pastel, conte, charcoal, ink on paper Rupert (2013) in studio
The Masses [2013]
The Masses (2013) four 58 x 76cm drawings on paper, pastel, conte, charcoal
Behind the Lines [2013]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMyfj1MvSTY Behind the lines (2013) video 8:22 min The 2013 Australian Federal Election proved to be a display of media mogul, Rupert Murdoch’s power. During the election campaign we saw from Murdoch’s papers blatant bias attacking Kevin Rudd and the Labor government and obvious endorsement of Liberal Leader Tony Abbott to become the PM. I […]
Hands [2013]
Hands (2013) 20 x 29cm (x6) digital prints and conte on Stonehenge paper Investigation into the body language of Rupert Murdoch in media photography.