creative exchanges

virtual interactivity

The Big Blue Ball project is extended via a continuing interchange of ideas through visual dialogue between the artist and researcher, Donna Wright, and project members. Making use of hand-made picture making techniques, creative reflections of participants' interpretations are recorded on miniatures; small, magnetic-backed, wooden blocks, 100x100mm in size.

The blocks are hand-painted and protected by a hard, clear lacquer. They fit neatly in the palm of a person's hand, are accessible and easy to handle. These hand-painted pictures act as memory units providing a collection of semiotic building blocks that can be renegotiated by the viewer. 200 of these miniature ‘imagetexts' have been produced and are made publicly available at various exhibiting sites; spectators can continue the communication process by moving the blocks around on the table and up the wall, reflexively constructing new ideas and new meanings.

Click on the blocks to activate picture play

big blue ball paintings
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exhibitions

Australia May 2007
NEXT Gallery Southern Cross
University Australia May 2007

Paris July 2007
5th International Conference on
New Directions in the Humanities at
AUP American University in Paris

other projects

Shifting Position
Australia February 2000
Powerhouse Centre for Live Arts
Brisbane

Studio Works
Australia 1993 - 2000


Cotton Bud Cultures and
Colonial Cowgirls
Northern Territory 1992
Australia