Nature
SHELTER

 

Developed during a Project 24 Residency

Date: April 2023
Location: 2nd Space (Nambour/Namba)
Detail/Materials: Bamboo Poles, Gold Leaf, Wool (thrifted), Wire, Pine Needles (1.2 x 2.7 m)

Acknowledgement
Project 24 is an initiative of ArtsCoast: Spaces for Creatives and funded by Sunshine Coast Council’s Arts & Heritage Levy

Nature Shelter is an immersive installation that invites one viewer at a time to participate in a sensory experience designed to disrupt the everyday and evoke a temporal, fantastical world, offering a space for reflection and solitude.

Locally sourced, hand-cut bamboo poles situate the viewer within the artist’s immediate environment, fostering a tangible connection to place. Gold is employed symbolically as a conduit to the metaphysical, linking the visible with the unseen and the physical with the unconscious. The work forms part of an ongoing exploration of how art can gesture toward the ineffable, translating experiences that resist language into immersive, sensory encounters.

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shot of a large dance studio at night and inside a round bamboo structure with a pointed roof constructed from wool. The piece is an immersive art installation and relies on one warm spotlight to dimly lit the structure and space.
two close up photos put together of a round bamboo structure with a yellow wool door you can partially see through. The art installation is set up in a studio space at night with just one spotlight above lighting the structure and a chair and sunset light (projected onto a wall) to the right hand side
2 photos of one a dimly lit photo of a chair and a stool with a sunset light on the stool (projected onto a wall) in front of the chair. The second photo a women sitting inside a round bamboo structure with a yellow wool door you can partially see through. The art installation is set up in a studio space at night with just one spotlight above lighting the structure.
peering inside a round bamboo structure with a yellow wool door you can partially see through. The art installation is set up in a studio space at night with just one spotlight above lighting the structure.
a shot looking out from inside a 2m bamboo art installation made into a round shelter with a front opening of thin yellow wool people can climb into. The photo is taken at night when the studio space is only lit by a small warm spotlight. The structure faces a mirror that reflects back.
a photo taken at night inside a round bamboo art installation structure with gold leaf applied with some of the bamboo poles and a warm light above, causing a magenta lens flare
a close up shot looking out from inside a 2m bamboo art installation made into a round shelter with a front opening of thin yellow wool people can climb into. There is also gold leaf applied to the bamboo.
a cropped shot inside a 2m bamboo art installation made into a round shelter with good leaf on every 5th bamboo pole
a 2m bamboo art installation made into a round shelter with a front opening of thin yellow wool people can climb into
a shot of a pillow made of pom poms made to look like moss
women in an orange dress sitting inside a round bamboo structure with a yellow wool door you can partially see through
photo of cut standing bamboo constructed in a round shape with pointed wool roof to be a art installation, within a dance space studio. Their are 2 ladders and things around showing it's a work in progress
b&w photo of a dance studio filled with bamboo ready for an art installation. Their is bamboo on the floor and some leaned against a ladder