Banner Image: Detail from ‘Never Never’ series by Cath Bowdler, 1994

Curator/Artist

For 24 Hr ART, Darwin

THE DOG SHOW

1992

Poster: ‘This woman is not a Dog’ - a collage work, ‘This woman is not a bitch’, based on the highly offensive People Magazine cover. Solo performance piece, ‘Mondo Cane; a Shaggy Dog Story’ (Performer/Mac Cocker) for the Opening event.

Co-wrote Catalogue essay.

SELF PORTRAITS

1993

A mobile in satin ribbon with text in red crayon and black biro representing - ‘Myself the Mother/Artist as a Mobius Strip’: a seamless join along contradictory planes, held together with a Safety pin and hanging by a thread.

DRIVE SHE SAID

1994

‘Safe 'n' Sound’, installation and performance (Performers /Annie Gastin & Stella Gray).

See also the play in Home Cooking Theatre Company

KUDA BINAL

1994

Heri Dono in Darwin.
I neither curated nor made something for this event, rather I potentially sacrificed my family who were all participants. I am the woman Thelma John refers to in her essay, who is filming her husband and children being barbequed before her eyes.

SNAKES AND SERPENTS

1995

‘Snake-Proof’, 3D object, found materials.

ASK A LOCAL / TELL A TOURIST WHERE TO GO

1996

‘Seventeen Fannie Bay Sunsets’, an installation comprising seventeen Valencia oranges ( the variety that goes green again after it ripens so never gets sun burnt) sitting in silver seafood or peanut dishes engraved FBH Fannie Bay Hotel with seventeen postcards of Fannie Bay sunsets.

SALTWATER PEOPLES FESTIVAL

1996

CLOVES AND COLDIES

‘From Darwin to Ambon’, an installation in a pair of porthole shop windows at Parap Fine Food.

FIRE SAIL

Curated a show of works in a vacant shop in Fannie Bay about Darwin Harbour featuring works by Franck Gohier and Jacki Fleet

LEGACY

1996

An installation incorporating video performance about the controversial legacy of sacred Aboriginal objects collected by TGH Strehlow. Woods St Gallery ,Darwin

See also my play, THE INGKATA'S WIFE.

TABLEAU IMMEUBLAY

1996

Initiated, curated and wrangled an exhibition of Darwin Art Furniture Makers, including - Franck Gohier, Peter Quinn, Don Whyte et al.

Wrote the catalogue essay and also wrote ‘Musical Chairs’ a performance piece made with CIYT.

An ABC Darwin report on the work can be seen below: