It all started …

in a small studio lab at the back of the old courthouse in Geelong.

Behind a black plastic hoarding, a person was mixing crystal juice with food dyes to see what would grow. The room was filled with doddar laurel (an indigenous parasitic weed), different collected wools (some rescued from carpet destined for landfill), balls of string, a coat stand found in a store room, a tie rack found on a nature strip (interesting description), different seaweeds foraged on walks (responsibly but without permission), driftwood, bamboo sticks lashed together, cotton fabrics, glass bottles .. and much more hanging from the ceiling, on the shelves and on the floor.

The floor became a kaleidoscope of colours. The local council sent a videographer along to video the strange creations. His name was Eric and he coined the name of our genus - grumplings.

Three were three of us and I am pleased to hear that our donated organs will be used to birth a new clan of grumplings in Carlisle Street Balaclava. Not just green, the colourful grumplngs will have their own stories based on their heritage and place as a performance.

perception of place as a performance

“I have actually been meaning to share something with you. For a recent graphic design assignment, we were asked to digitally "respond" to the colour artist David Sequeira and his residence at the Percy Grainger Music Museum. The idea being to create a digital publication of his work. I found some similarities between his art practice of colour being a "performance" and some of the things that we had talked about. Namely, the perception of place as a performance. So I used the opportunity to develop some of my ideas around musical canons that I had started exploring and created this video

Eamon Dooley, Anglesea