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Autonomous exploring robot.

Explorer III is a continuation of the autonomous exploring robot series. The sculpture is the first in the series to include an internal scene of the miniature inner workings.

Dimensions: 90 wide x 40 deep x 50 tall (cm)
Weight: 18 kg
Materials: steel, cast iron, brass, mixed media

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Sculpture inspired by the Black Saturday fires in Victoria, Australia (February 2009).
The sculpture is tree-like in shape and has fire sprinklers for leaves.

Private collection, Braidwood NSW

Dimensions: 110 wide x 40 deep x 235 tall (cm)
Weight: 25 kg
Materials: Galvanised pipe fittings and fire sprinklers

Black Saturday

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Hand of Cog is a solid steel sculpture, cybernetic in nature, fusing a machine-like robotic element to an biological human hand. The hand is holding a machine component, completing the cycle from machine to biological back to machine.

Dimensions: 62 wide x 25 deep x 50 tall (cm)
Weight: 24 kg
Materials: steel
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Made mostly from solid brass and cast iron.  Flying Boat combines exotic objects and materials in a way that connects the rotation of the propeller with the flying movement of the brass mesh wings.

Dimensions: 70 wide x 45 deep x 55 tall (cm)
Weight: 12 kg
Materials: steel, cast iron & brass
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Interactive kinetic sculpture made from recycled and found objects, powered by air compressed (manually by a hand pump or automatically from compressor). The Cowboy has a Blaster in each hand that is quick-drawn by a lever and fired individually with a second leaver. One blaster fires foam balls and the other produces a Sonic Death Ray.

Dimensions: 38 wide x 40 deep x 75 tall (cm)
Weight: 20kg
Materials: Steel, cast iron, aluminium, pneumatics, mixed media
Space CowboySpace Cowboy

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Sculpture By The Sea 2007, sited on Tamarama Beach.

Solar powered radio plays through PA speakers

Winner of the Damien Courtney Young Sculptor Award and recipient of the Clitheroe Grant for Emerging Artists

Dimensions: 2500 wide x 1800 deep x 5500 tall (cm)
Weight: 320kg
Materials: steel, cast iron, brass, aluminium & mixed media

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