The installation is designed to stimulate memories and conversation. It activates connection, in the mind and between passengers and the staff taking care of them. The room is designed to allow family members to visit, giving grandparents the opportunity to share an experience and share stories with their grandchildren. It's also respite for anyone that wants to just rest, seeing some beautiful imagery and have a cup of tea as the tea trolley goes by.
Articulate Project Space
An exhibition of large paper works - cut, torn, edited street posters
This artist run space is a large warehouse occupied by five resident artists. The building invites experimentation for artists using spacial dynamics that are not available in regular size studios.
Within this exhibition space I worked with the architectural forms to change the dynamics of my paper creations, using levels throughout the building, the weight of heavy wooden support beams, open space to the roof, skylights, and large spanning walls. Hanging works so they would float throughout the building. The holes cut into these large found posters become peepholes that both mask and reveal structural qualities of their environment.
Found objects from a rusty car junk-yard, in the outback, right in the centre of Australia. Car safety and care on unsealed roads are priority for indigenous communities in APY Lands. So many cars are destroyed by the harsh land - pot holes, corregatted roads, stray animals, long hot stretches of road.
I had the privilege of visiting Pipalyatjara in January 2017 for a Youth Initiative the Community was undertaking to support mental health and suicide prevention. They put on a fashion show, it was brilliant fun (and is on YouTube).
The next day I took photos of some rusty objects and collected a few small things.
The outcome are these 3 collage works, representing that time.
This 2019 series stems from a fascination with making line from objects beyond the pen or brush.
Inspired by a retro-exhibition at the 2017 Venice Biennale of the French artist Raymond Hains. His collection of torn posters and the graphic play he developed with prints has been a great influence on my work.
I have begun to explore materiality and language from "torn paper" found on street walls, repurposed and recycled into a new life and function.
This mixed media explores form using light and paper. Street posters reshaped into new structures.
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This collection of paper works is an exploration of line through random tearing, and layering from pulling apart and assembling.
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10 ft paper tear, on wood
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The joy of being a pickle
Luke Power collaborated with local Sydney artist Melissa Hamlyn and Indigenous artists from Injalak Arts, Northern Territory to create a fashion-sculpture-wonderland inspired by Indigenous motifs and woven textiles. The prints were from Injalak Arts, drapery created by Melissa and the design installation was created and coordinated by Luke at Birkenhead Point, Sydney Harbour. LED lights lit the large wooden cut-outs, copied from the Indigenous printed material.
Visiting NYC early 2018, I was inspired by the visuals of the city: the street art, stickers, fashion, fantasy in shop window displays, artists and art galleries.
I visited Jackson Pollock's studio with a friend of mine from the area and saw in his home a Ben Bianchi box, a small collection of memorabilia and curious items. His souvenir boxes are an influence on my collage works.
This series of paper works comes from posters and the city's green paint, used to block out unwanted poster advertisments on buildings.
With a recent visit to APY Lands, Central Australia, this collage focuses on materials found in the desert setting. Kalka, South Australia: car dumping ground.
With a recent visit to APY Lands, Central Australia, this series of collage focus on vehicle and rust forms found in the desert setting. Kalka, South Australia: car dumping ground.
