Backyard culture…the question of memory, history and identity
1990, a series of fourteen, 10x15cm black & white photographs depicting wine making in my grandfather, Pellegrino Salomone’s suburban backyard shed in Torrensville, Adelaide, Australia. In the collection of the Migration Museum, A Division of the History Trust of South Australia
Missing in Action
1992, text, photography, various art newspapers, magazines & newsletters, red wine, wall & floor installation with variable dimensions. Post West, Adelaide, Australia
Arms length funding
1993, metal fork, wooden crutch, 131x20x20cm. [RE] Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
Adding to the heart debate
1993, reshaped garden shrub at Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, 300x200x100cm. Assistance from Annabelle Collett (1955-2019)
As seen
From the project, Looking at the Billboard. December 1994-Lee Salomone. 6x3metre mixed mediabillboard. Looking at the Billboard was a 15th month project, 1994-1995, that showcased 28, 6x3metre artworks in the Adelaide suburb of Forestville
Diary
June 1994-Steve Leishman. Steve used the 6x3metre billboard like an A4 journal. 365 used plastic bread bags that the artist had previously consumed and stored for a possible future use. Steve Leishman (1949-2017)
Word of mouth
1995, Broadsheet art magazine, twine, grape vine, willow, 170x72x61cm. North Adelaide School of Art, Adelaide, Australia
Life Support
1996, bamboo, twine, earth, 250x400x150cm. Gasworks, Melbourne, Australia
Evidence
1997-1999, bitumenex paint on paper, 356 frottage prints from the streets of Milano, Italy, wall installation dimensions variable. Nexus Gallery, Adelaide
footnotes from a periphery
1998-1999, 313 mixed media works on paperwork, a 15-month project that recreated all the front pages of Adelaide’s local newspaper for 1998, installation dimensions variable. 1999, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
branch rationalisation
1999, 150 Oleander branches, blue flocking, floor installation with variable dimensions. branch rationalisation at Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia Adelaide
branch rationalisation
2000, 150 Oleander branches, blue flocking, colbalt blue paint, floor installation with variable dimensions. branch rationalisation at Palimpsest #3, Mildura, Victoria, Australia
The cull of the wild
2000, plant fibre, chroma key blue acrylic paint, 30x42x20cm
Extreme individualism
2000, 101 various sized metal hooks collected from maternal grandfather, Giovanni Zotti, estate, wall installation dimensions variable
Human Nature
2000-2003, natural fibres, plaster, chroma key blue acrylic paint, 20 piece wall installation with variable dimensions. Human Nature at Greenaway Gallery, Adelaide, Australia
What do they know about love?
From the series, Human Nature, 2000-2003, Oleander branches, plaster, chroma key blue acrylic paint, 56 x 24 x 18cm. Private collection
o stai con noi o stai contra / you are either with us or against us
2001, Oleander branches, chroma key blue acrylic paint, sand, floor installation with variable dimensions
scape
2001-2003, 45 mixed media sandpaper & paint works, wall installation variable dimensions. Palimpsest, Red Cliffs, Victoria, Australia, 2001
Hope against hope
2002, 465 Kurrajong seed pods, chroma key blue paint. One seed pod for every assylum-seeker on the Tampa, August, 2001. Floor installation with variable dimensions, each piece approx. 2x7x4cm. Gallery4A, Sydney, Australia
Inside Out
2003-2004, a series of 20 envelopes, mixed media on paper, text, digital image, 24x12cm
Baby boomers expect too much
from the series, Inside Out, 2004, envelope, tracing paper, digital image, 21x23cm
untitled
from the series, negativespace, 2004, sandpaper, paint, 23x24cm
untitled 2
from the series, negative space, 2004, sandpaper, paint, 23x15cm
This is not a boomerang
2004, 6 family wooden garden trowels, turmeric, each piece approximately 30x15x3.5cm. Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Palast der Republik
11.11.2005, sandpaper, various paints, 23x28cm. Rubbing of the Palast der Republik, Schloss Platz, Berlin, Germany, (demolished 2008)
Berlin Wall
14.11.2005, sandpaper, various paints, 12x12cm. Rubbing of the Berlin Wall, Mühlenstrasse, Friedrichshain, Berlin, Germany
from the series, on the other hand, 2006, type c colour photograph, 50x50cm
the politics of prosperity
from the series, on the other hand, 2007, type c colour photograph, 50x50cm
heart space
from the series, on the other hand, 2007, type c colour photograph, 50x50cm
strange bunch
2007, type c colour photograph, 75x50cm
what comes around
2007, found wooden bread board, 7 wire clothes hangers, 57x55x1.5cm
untitled havoc
2007, sandpaper, various paints, pencil, 19x12cm. Rubbing of Susan Norrie’s installation HAVOC, at the 52nd Venice Biennale, Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, Venice, Italy
one day it will all make sense
2008, 1600 misprint run of Broadsheet, Contemporary Art magazine. Vol 21 No 1 March 1992, other Broadsheet, Agenda, The Adelaide Review, Artlink Grandmother’s metal hoe & hand trowel and glass, 80x122x41cm. Glass by Bettina Visentin
sorrow
13-02-2008, found wooden bread board, black ochre, red ochre, 28x38x2cm. Private collection.
country
2008, various garden hoses, reverse side of laminex table top, 81x170x1.5cm
I see the moon and the moon sees me
2008, wood & metal spade handle, metal, ochre, 77x12x3.5cm
lavro / work
2008, metal, paternal grandfather Pellegrino Salomone’s wooden hoe stick, 136x19x4cm. Collection of Mildura Arts Centre, Victoria, Australia
Tarnkappe / Cloak
2008, 10,000 used Australian & German beer bottle tops, floor installation with variable dimensions. Installation view at galerie kurt im Hirsch, Berlin, Germany
desire
2008, type c colour photograph, 50x33cm
lemon
2008, various metals, paint, 25x18x3cm. Private collection.