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2009
Vivian
Nilan Articulated 2m puppet of
a whale – dog for a
short film.
Diemme Miniature
frieze for repitition in a boutique butcher shop in Woolahra
Ace
Props 6
giant red mushrooms for the Strand Arcade
Healthy
Results Sculpted
lotus wall light / fiberglass rod and silk
Historic
Houses Trust Costumes
for ‘Ratticus and Radar’ performance at the Hyde Park Barracks
The
Moose Café Moose
antlers
2008
Hurstville
Council Abstract
sculptures of angels for public space in Hurstville.
Bamboo, cane
Shopfront Theatre 8
large nightlight sculptures and stage design for Lost Toy Story Project
Incentive Action Backdrop for the
Mitzubishi Awards, Sheraton Hotel
Opera Australia Props Dept: Paint 1000
books - the library for My Fair Lady
: Carve 3 miniature
Hotoke (ancestral spirits) Madame Butterfly
Scenic
Art Dept: Paint sets for My Fair Lady
Amnesty International 7
monkey masks and tails – Great Firewall of China National campaign
Historic Houses Trust Painted
canvas 8 x 6m to commemorate the Rum Rebellion for an Australia Day performance
at Museum of Sydney
Night Words Festival A
massive notebook as a set design, Sydney Opera House.
2007
National Museum of Aust. A prosthetic rat head for performer Nigel Sutton
Warner Bros Sculpt a moose head and 5 life-sized bananas for Banana Splitz the
film
Museum of Sydney 16 surreally enormous books for the Rum Rebellion exhibition
Powerhouse Museum A new puppet head for Zoe, an extension puppet
Incentive Action A backdrop for Mitzubishi Awards, Sydney Sheraton
Hannafords Events Sculpture of a 50s strawberry milkshake.
Griffin Theatre Company Specialised prop boxes / seats for a play
The Sydney Magazine Giant salad servers for a photo shoot
Greenpeace 3 life-sized latex masks of Kevin Rudd
Greenpeace 2 collapsable tuna fish costumes foran anti over-fishing campaign
Greenpeace 20 costume cow heads for an anti GM food campaign
Masquerade Costume Hire 5 John Howard latex masks
Baradine Association Acquired funding to deliver 2 sculpture workshops in regional NSW
Optus The Optus animals created as public art for the streets of
Kookaburra Productions 12 charred corpses & duck and lamb
puppets for Pippin
2006
Asian Games, Doha, UAE Costume Props - construction and lighting for Opening Ceremony in Doha
Darwin Film Festival First
Prize for ‘Alimation’ in the Out There Category
Gate
7 2
sculptures about The Boston Tea Party and Paul Revere’s Ride.
Belvoir St Theatre A copy of an ecclesiastical
statue: Saint Rocco for Peribanez
Jen Newman-Preston Articulated
winged young girl puppet for dance and film.
EFEX “Bernadette”
a flu bug costume puppet for Sanofi’s flu vaccine.
2005
Powerhouse Museum Extension
puppets for educational theatre, “Cogs and Zoe”
EFEX “Bernie”
a flu bug costume ‘mascot’ for Sanofi’s flu vaccine.
Great Big Events 9 sets of strap on
articulated feathered wings for a CaSPA performance at The Entertainment
Centre, Sydney
ERTH Sculpting
and mechanizing puppets for Gondwana, a multi arts show at the National Museum
of Australia in Canberra
Gene – X Prosthetics
for an independent feature film: flexible scissors and stabbed eye.
UNSW Props
for a campaign on national environmental footprints: A 3m footprint.
Opera Australia
Mould design and
creation for a 4m face of Baal for Nabucco
Old Parliament House Mould
making, prosthetics, effects on a silicon and foam articulated mannakin of
Prime Minister John Curtin through ERTH Visual and Physical.
ERTH Articulated
and shadow puppets for Gondwanaland,
performed at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Myer
Winter Parade 3
ergonomic arctic bird sculptures for performance.
Creative Entertainment Prosthetic
rats’ tails for performance, National Gallery, Canberra
2004
Opera Australia Sculpture of Baal, a 4m
Assyrian face for Nabucco / vermiculite on armature
NAISDA Set
sculptor, Apu Kaazi (Mother’s Child), National Association of Islander Dance at
The Performance Space, Chippendale/ All cardboard set
The House of Wax Wax
Technician: life casting, sculpting, mould making,
fitting and lay-up.Warner Bros Studios, Gold Coast.
Old
Parliament House Sculpt
caricatured puppet headpieces of Prime Ministers Sir Robert Menzies and Doc
Evatt for educational performance.
Old Parliament House
Mould, cast, paint, and flock
life sized sculpts of Sir Robert Menzies and Joe Lyons, including life cast
hands and silicon airbrushing.
Prodigy
Films Sculptor,
international Peugeot TV advertisement:17 life-sized
toy cars.
Stealth Senior
Mould Maker in Models, FOX Studios Australia.
2003
Pinchgut Prods Wearable Ass’s Head for
The Fairy Queen opera at Angel Place Recital Hall
Sydney
Theatre Co 4m
poly classical figure sculpt from a painting for The Republic of Myopia
Promotechnics Two large wearable
headpieces for a children’s TV show in Canada
Big Kahuna Imagineering A helmet for the South Australian Opera’s The
Ring Cycle.
Star Wars Mould Maker in
Plasterers Department, FOX Studios Australia
Opera Australia The head of John The Baptist
for Salome - 2 singers’ heads life cast in silicon :
Daniel Sumegi and Warwick Fife
Barry Humphries Sculpt: 3 flying ducks for his
national theatre tour.
Greenpeace
Sculpt George
Bush and John Howard to create latex masks.
Sydney Theatre Co Sculptor for Way of the World and prop making for Major Barbara
2002
The Matrix Revolutions Assistant
Sculptor on set, mould making in Models, FOX Studios Australia
Aust Creation Station
Mould making a ceiling feature
for a US Casino
Mascon Festival
Designer / Creator of a
14m long fully articulated puppet of a feral cat
ERTH Sydney
Festival 3 articulated character masks from Reg Mombassa’s designs
2001
The Matrix Mold
making in Props Manufacture, FOX Studios Australia
Melbourne Museum Wearable Australian dinosaurs
parts for children to strap – on and play.
ABC TV The
Election Chaser, latex masks of Prime Minister John Howard and Opposition
Leader Kim Beazley
Opera Australia Model painting and character
sculpts for Sweeney Todd by Peter England
2000
Sydney Theatre Co Props
making for A Month in the Country and A Cheery Soul
ERTH Sculptural
costumes, mask design and creation for their repertoire.
Enchanter Productions
Sculpting, mold making and casting
for Indigenous Pavillion, Olympic Park.
Sydney
Olympic Games Creation
of a Blowfly 8m x 4m from a Reg Mombassa design.
Storageman Sculpture
and architectural forms for Sydney International Airport.
Aust. Radiology Archives
Private commission, bust of W. Rontgen,
discoverer of the X Ray
TEACHING
National Art School 2007 – Sculpture Department
Welded steel armatures and polystyrene
construction to make figurative caryatids
Sydney Community College – Art Teacher 1995 - 2007
Sculpture/ Mould Making, Life Drawing,
Creative Drawing, Soft Pastels, Mixed Media Arts
Macquarie University - Art Teacher 1998 – 2003
Watercolour Painting and Creative Drawing
Chatswood Evening College – Art Teacher 1995 - 1998
Life Drawing, Watercolour painting,
Sculpture, Creative Drawing
Manly Warringah Community College – Art Teacher 1994 – 1995:
Creative Drawing
Macquarie University - Art Teacher 1998 – 2003 : Watercolour Painting and Creative Drawing
Pine St Community Centre Art Teacher 1996
: Creative Drawing
Mascon Festival 1998 – 2002 Art Workshop Leader, Stage Manager
Workshops in mask making,puppets
and lanterns. Stage Manager for the event night in 1998.
2005 Puppetry
for Film and TV, Sydney Film School
2004 Certificate 4 in
Workplace Training
2002 Master
class in Puppet making with Phillip Millar, Puppetry Festival, Blackheath
2001 Short
Course in Art Direction, AFTRS, Sydney
1989 – 1990 BA Vis. Arts Degree,
SCA, University of Sydney. Major in Sculpture
1988 – 1989 Diploma of Art, East Sydney Technical College (incomplete
– transferred to Sydney College of the Arts)
1984 - 1986 BA Degree at Sydney
University, majors in English Literature and German Hons
SCULPTING
Modeling
: clays, plastecine, super sculpey
Carving
: polystyrene, wood, foams
Construction
: foams, fiberglass rod, thermoplastics, aluminum, cane,
mixed media, simple mechanisms.
Mould
making and casting :
silicons, fiberglass, Forton MG, latex, plasters, resins, polyurethanes, alginate.
FABRICATION
Mixed media construction
Prop making
Puppet making
Design and construction of ergonomic
masks and costumes
Pattern Making
Armatures
PAINTING
Silicons
Latex
Theatre Models
Finishing
Hard-coated forms,
Clay Glazing
Airbrushing
MOLD MAKING
Case
Molding :
Plaster bandage and alginate, multi piece fiberglass jackets, block molds
Piece
Molding :
Hydrostone plaster piece molds for latex / polyurethane, multi piece plaster
molds, pottery plaster for clay slip
Vacuum
Forming :
Single piece and multi piece vacuum formed moldings.
SILICONS
: RTV silicons, Thixotropic silicon.
Colour mixing and painting with silicon adhesive caulking and tinters /
pigments, airbrushing, silicon skins for puppets.
RESINS
: Epoxy, polyester, polyurethane
PLASTER
; Ultracal 30, Hydrostone, Casting plaster, Garden cast,
Forton MG
LATEX
: Absorption casting, coloured latex lay-up, foam latex
CONCRETE
: with aggregates, sands, ochres, solid and hollow
LOW
MELTING POINT ALLOYS ;
Lead
WAX
: Bees wax, paraffin, microcrystalline
waxes, bronze casting wax, plasticised wax.