Entrance of the Virtual Transfomers Gallery Wing where you will find the works on paper which belong to the Transformers series.
While basically two-dimensional, additional paper and material is frequently glued onto the surfaces. Essentially they become works of mixed media. As noted in the general commentary below these works together with the 3-D Transformers toured a group of galleries in NSW, Perth and Queensland. Essays and other texts relating to these works can be found in the booklet Transformer: Field of Change.
Specific essays can be found in the Library (click button below).

When you are ready you may want to check out one of the other galleries. Just click the appropriate button below.

the TRANSFORMERS Series
the 2D works
image details artist's running commentary general commentary

 

 

 

 

 

 

Title: 3 Galaxies in Rectangular Space

Mixed media (glued paper), Clay, acrylic
on Hahnemuhle 350gsm paper

78.5 x 106.5 cm
1988

 

 

Collection: the artist

 

 

These Works on paper were part of a group which included the 3D Transformer works. This collection toured in 1989, titled
Transformer: Fields of Change,
and exhibited at these venues:

Albury Art Centre (first exhibiting venue)
Ben Grady Gallery, Canberra,
Penrith Emu Plains Gallery,
Mildura Art Centre,
Benalla Regional Art Gallery,

Roz macAllan Gallery, Brisbane

Gallerie Dusseldorf, Perth,

 

The earliest of these 2D works were made while in the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien studio Berlin (1983-4).  These are noted in the column "Artist's Running Commentary".

On return to my studio in Wagga Wagga NSW these organic machine images seemed to develop a life of their own.
At a later date I realised that the idea behind these images probably came from a much earlier print image - Muscle Machine - made in 1966 & related images from that same period.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Title: 4 Rocks (Threatened by) and a Thunderstorm

Mixed media; (glued paper), clay, sand, gouache,
water colour on Hahnemuhle 350gsm paper

78 x 63 cm
1989

 

Collection: the artist

 

 

 

 

 

 

Title: Altered Machine

Mixed media (glued paper), Clay, acrylic
on Hahnemuhle 350gsm paper

78 x 108 cm
1988

 

 

 

Private Collection

 

 

 

 


Title: Cone for Almada (Portugal)

Mixed media: clay, gouache,
water colour on Hahnemuhle 350gsm paper

65.5 x 48 cm
1983

 

 

 

 

 

Collection: the artist

 

 

 

 

Title: Destroyed Machine

Mixed media, (glued paper),  acrylic
on Hahnemuhle 350gsm paper

79 x 107 cm
1987

Collection: the artist

 

 

 

 

 

Title:  Falling Figure

Mixed media: clay, gouache, water colour
on Hahnemuhle 350gsm paper

66 x 47 cm
1983

 

Private Collection

 

 

 

 

Title: Flying Sculpture Landing at Mt Magnet

Mixed media (glued paper), clay, acrylic
on Hahnemuhle 350gsm paper

78 x 53 cm
1989

Collection: the artist

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Title: Flying Sculpture Taking Aim
(aka Machine Liberated from the Earth)

Mixed media; (glued paper), clay, acrylic
on Hahnemuhle 350gsm paper

79 x 107 cm
1990

 

 Collection: the artist  

 

 

 

 

Title: 6 Machines Generating Sky Blue

Mixed media (glued paper), clay, sand, gouache, water colour
on Hahnemuhle 350gsm paper

78.5 x 54 cm
1989

 

 Collection: the artist  

 

 

 

 

Title: Machine, Earth and Sky

Mixed media, clay, acrylic
on Hahnemuhle 350gsm paper

79 x 106 cm
1988

 Collection: the artist  

 

 

 

Title: Paddock Full of Machines
(aka Machines Spawning in a Paddock)

Mixed media, (glued paper), clay, acrylic
on Hahnemuhle 350gsm paper

78.5 x 107 cm
1989

Collection: the artist  

 


 

 

Title:  Mobile Landscape
(aka Winged Landscape)

Mixed media, (glued paper),  clay, acrylic
on Hahnemuhle 350gsm paper

79 x 107 cm
1988

 Collection: the artist  

 

 

 

 

Title: One Antipodean

charcoal on paper

1988

 Collection: the artist  


 

 

 

 

Title: One Antipodean with Transformer

charcoal on paper

1988

 Collection: the artist  

 

 

 

 

Title: One Stick left for Termites – Hamersley Ranges

Mixed media: clay, gouache, water colour
on Hahnemuhle 350gsm paper

79 x 53.5 cm 1989		 Collection: the artist  

 

 

 

 

Title:  Organic Machine

Mixed media (glued paper), clay, acrylic
on Hahnemuhle 350gsm paper
with fibreglass support for projecting sections

78 x 108 cm (excluding protrusions)
1987

Collection: the artist  

 

 

 

 

Title:  Fractured Landscape/ Sculpture Regenerating

Mixed media: gouache, ink
on Hahnemuhle 350gsm paper

79 x 107 cm
1989

Collection: the artist  

 

 

 

 

 

Title:  Self-Destructing Machine

Mixed media, clay, acrylic
on Hahnemuhle 350gsm paper

79 x 107 cm
1988

 Collection: the artist  

 

 

 

 

 

Title: Skeletal Tent for Berlin

Mixed media: clay, gouache, water colour
on Hahnemuhle 350gsm paper

66 x 47cm
1983

Collection National Gallery Australia, Canberra  

 

 

 

 

Title: Tankscape

Mixed media, gouache. on Hahnemuhle 350gsm paper

47 x 66 cm
1989

Collection National Gallery Australia, Canberra  

 

 

Title: Tent & Compass

Mixed media, clay, gouache, water colour, digital prints, compass
on Hahnemuhle 350gsm paper

79 x 110 cm
1986/2025

 Collection: the artist  

 

 

 

 

 

Title: Trapped Figures Watching the Passing of the 20th Century

Mixed media (glued paper), clay, acrylic
on Hahnemuhle 350gsm paper

106 x 78.5 cm
1989

Collection: the artist  

 

 

 

 

 

Title: Tripod

Gouache, ink on Hannemule paper

70 x 51 cm
1987

Collection: the artist  
 

 

Title: X on Styx

Hahnemuhle 350gsm paper

 

    
 

 

Title: Tankscape, Ukraine Kursk border

Hahnemuhle 350gsm paper
2025

 

    

 

 

  

Title: X displacement


Hahnemuhle 350gsm paper
79 x 107.5 cm

 

  Ukraine border  
 

 

Boatman

79 x 107 cm

 

    
 

 

2nd helicopter

78 x 107 cm

 

    
       
       

 

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