The great southern heavens

This is a major new work I've created for a show at the Goulburn Art Gallery in December 2011 involving a small Steampunk telescope and a huge wall hanging star map printed onto fabric.This is one of my personal favourite parts of the work, the mobile phone girl. It was inspired by a visit to Blists Hill Victorian Town Museum in the UK. A father was taking his daughter around the museum showing her some awesome things like giant steam engines, a working Victorian foundry in which molten iron was being poured etc, etc. And the whole time she did nothing but play with her mobile phone. This seemed like a symptom of the times so I incorporated her into the border together with an unfortunate angel doing her damndest to inspire the girl to lift her eyes beyond the screen.