Walkthrough

Introduction

Sculptor not artist

Early life

Education

You can do better

Study in Melbourne

National Art School

Meeting Elizabeth

The Wimmera

Key influences

Converting to sculpture

Success with first sculpture

Sculpture from Carnaby Street

Working in a clear way

A very important element

Putting words to vague senses

Performance at Institute of Contemporary Art

Memory of things not quite grasped

Discovering Arte Provera

Using natural objects, simply and directly

Human body as natural material

Interventions of the body

More annimated installations

Saint Paul's first epistle

Things come from the aether

Ingmar Bergman

Don't look to try and explain

Reaction leads to certain directions

Evoking feelings and emotions

Preoccupations in the work

A vision of human life

The cycle of life

Images like fragments of memory

Drawing shape the work

Evoking sort of memory

It all comes femories of childhood

Looking back at the installations

Cultural wars, identity and gender issues

Forces driving creation of work

Use of found materials

River stones have a life of their own

Exhausting possibilities in an idea

The Venice Biennale, 1978

Not given to overflowing emotions

Kick starting international career

Working in Poland

Exhibiting in Europe

Joseph Beuys

An immense impact

Voices in concert

Cacophony was the conversation

The role of pianos

Fluxus

Make a comment about Elizabeth

Importance of Berlin residencies

The bouncing ball

Return to Berlin

Forever betwixt and between

Happy to come back to Australia

The drawings

Drawing, a purely practical thing

Drawings for performances

Explore drawings of pianos

Drawings of impossible objects

Dance installation in Denmark

Drawing keeps the mind churning over

Influence of Godfrey Miller

Art school a total disaster

The house style

Do things in a certain way

Godfrey Miller as teacher

Draw what you know not what you see

Why look at exhibitions

Coming back to painting

Tired of performances

Doing installations led back to painting

The Kaldor show

Painting instead of installations

Drawing with bitumen

Painting with tar

Painting keeps me occupied

The role of literature

Attracted to authors with strange names

A love of books

The voice of Thomas Mann

Deteriorating sight

The importance of Kundera

A love of poetry

Working with dance artists

Drawn to contemporary dance

Do something with rope

Dancers on Lake George

Rehearsals in studio

Nature of relationsip with dancers

Embodied cognition

Impatience with dancers

Telling dancers what to do

Current work

Still making maquettes

Teaching three pianos to sing

Up close painting looks different

The DBB club

Thank you

Credits