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The Art of Value

The Art of Value

Plastic Age

Oil Sculptures

Oil Sculptures – install view
Oil Sculpture 10
Oil Sculpture 9
Oil Sculpture 8
Oil Sculpture 7
Oil Sculpture 6
Oil Sculpture 5
Oil Sculpture 4
Oil Sculpture 3
Oil Sculpture 2
Oil Sculpture 1

Oil Age – Paintings

Oil Age
Block Offer
Kaitiakitanga
The Oil Fields
Deepwater Horizon
Drill, Baby, Drill
Peak Oil
Sweet Crude Oil
Tui Field
Pohokura Field
Maui Field
Kupe Field
Maari Field
Kapuni Field
McKee Field
Kowhai Field
Mangahewa Field
Ocean Spill
Oil Warfare Decoration

Drones

Drone Empire Decoration (Red)
Drone Empire Decoration
Drone Empire Decoration
Drone Warfare Decoration

Art Badges

Art Merch
Arthole
Artrovert
Art Monster

Signatures

Signature Cluster (Sky)
Signature Cluster (Blue)
Signature Cluster (Black)
Signature Clusters 1-3
Signature Field 1
Signature Field 2
Signature Field 3
Signature Field 4

Extractivist Landscapes

Fracked
Oil Painting
Oasis
Deluge 2
Deluge 1

Backwater Ops

Tui Elite Forces
NOYFB
We Own The Night
Against All Odds
Keep Your Distance
Let Them Hate
Collect All Signals
You Can Run
Operations Terminated
Backwater Ops
Redacted: If I Tell You…
Backwater Ops Leak

Five Eyes Network

Five Eyes Network
Five Eyes Network – Outpost

Graphs

Manifestation
Secular Trinity
Simulations
Downfall
Growth
Peak
Crisis
Rise

Misc

Mission 2
Mission 1
Street Poster Project
Requiem for Hotere
Solar

Face Value

40,000 x 5c ($2,000)
38 x $1 ($38)
30 x 50c coins ($15)
85 x 5c coins ($4.25)
20 x 20c coins ($4)

A Comfortable Environment

Indoor Flying Insect Killers
Indoor Flying Insect Killer
Glacier Pure
Glacier Pure – Detail
Friendly Frigidaire
Collector’s Items
A Year’s Supply
Installation View 1
Installation View 2

Oiled Landscapes

Oiled Landscapes (install)
Oiled Landscape (1)
Oiled Landscape (2)

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Plastic Whau Days, 2018 Whau Arts Festival

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September 23, 2018

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Plastic Whau Days, installed last week on a boardwalk footbridge in Whau River mangroves for the Whau Arts Festival (@whauthepeople). It's made from repurposed single-use plastic. – #sculpture #artinstallation #artwork #plastic #contemporaryart #artwork #artgram #artstagram #artistsoninstagram #art

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Plastic Whau Days, 2018 Whau Arts Festival

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September 23, 2018

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This is 1 of 2 outdoor sculptures I installed this past weekend. This first one, Plastic Whau Days, was on a boardwalk footbridge through mangroves over the Whau River, for the Whau Arts Festival (@whauthepeople). Both works were in association with Whau River Catchment Trust (@whauriver) river cleanup events. The works were made with repurposed single-use plastic bags. Swipe <- – #sculpture #artinstallation#artwork #plastic #contemporaryart #artwork #artgram #artstagram #artistsoninstagram #art

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Whau Arts Festival

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September 23, 2018

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Tomorrow I’ll be installing my Plastic Whau Days artwork for the Whau Arts Festival. The installation involves long lengths of handmade plastic rope covering the railings of a boardwalk footbridge. It's made from repurposed, single-use plastic. Come down to the Whau River tomorrow to check out the whole work. Swipe to next image to see location map. – – #artinstallation #sculpture #artwork #plastic #festival #contemporaryart #festival #artwork #artgram#artstagram #artistsoninstagram #art

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Whau Arts Festival

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September 23, 2018

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For the Whau Arts Festival, my outdoor installation down by the Whau River is happening this SATURDAY, 5th of MAY, after the festival was postponed due to severe weather last weekend. Weather outlook looking good! Swipe to next image to see exact location. The work has been handmade from repurposed, single-use plastic. Down by the Whau river, there will also be a riverside cleanup hosted by the Whau River Catchment Trust (all welcome), and blues music from Stefan. The main festival site will be just up the road at Riversdale Park, from 9am – 9pm. Check out website for the full programme (link in bio). – #contemporaryart #artinstallation #sculpture #festival #artwork #artgram #artstagram #artistsoninstagram #art #artwork

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Face Value, 1999

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September 19, 2017

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One of my coin sculptures from the late 90s, installed here as part of my Face Value exhibition, Gallery 19, Sydney, 1999. I was thinking a lot about the peculiar economics of contemporary art at the time, and wrote my master’s thesis on that subject. The international art market has grown considerably since then, and ultra high net worth investors (UHNWI) are some of the world's most prominent contemporary art collectors. 40,000 x 5c coins 300 cm x 150 cm – #contemporaryart #artgram #sculpture #installation #art #investment #money #nzart #artcollecting #artmarket #artworld #artcollector #artwork #artstagram

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Friendly Frigidaire, 1992

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June 21, 2017

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From the dusty slide archives, in a time before web. This is a work made in 1992 while still at Ilam art school: Friendly Frigidaire, comprised of fridge condensers and gas bottles. I remember that the hole in the ozone layer (periodically over NZ) was big environmental news around that time, with chlorofluorocarbons in refrigerants and aerosols being a significant cause of the problem. Thanks to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, CFCs have been progressively banned internationally since then. I remember I was kind of obsessed with @ashleybickerton's “commercial pieces” and “Anthropospheres” around that time, as well as having a fondness for minimalist sculpture. Part of this "A Comfortable Environment" series was shown as part of a small group show at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery the following year, curated by William McAloon (RIP), but not this particular piece installed at the Ilam Campus Gallery in '92. #sculpture #contemporaryart #nzart #installationart

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