artworks 2014-2021
The moon keeps talking
2012-2014, wooden bread board, paint, metal, bronze, patina, dental mirror, 17.5x38x3cm
intermittent growth
2014, Metal saucepan lid, bronze, patina, 18cm diameter x3.5cm. Private collection
cyclical
2014, burnt metal wire, bronze, patina, 12x12x5cm. Private collection
reaching for the moon
2014, gicleé print on photorag art paper, 128x128x4cm. Edition 1/10
celestial
2014, wooden artist easel, wooden bread board, paint, dental mirror, 186x45x45cm
celestial
celestial at artroom5, Adelaide, Australia, March 2017
micro-macro
2013-2015, wood, bronze, patina, jarrah, resin, 108x52x5cm. Malus domestica edition #1 of 6 in a private collection
Plausible future
From the series, works from the (found)ry, 2014-2015, Metal, paint, bronze, patina, 6x46x46cm. Private collection
it's complicated
From the series, works from the (found)ry, 2013-15, Tin, metal, bronze, patina, wood, 21×19.5x10cm
small town moon
From the series, works from the (found)ry, 2015, Metal, bronze, 43x23x4cm. Finalist work in 2015 Whyalla Art Prize. Private collection
Country
2008–2016, Various garden hoses, screws, 79x53cm. Finalist work in 2017 Whyalla Art Prize
For Yves Klein
From the series, works from the (found)ry, 2013-2016, Bronze, patina, chroma key blue acrylic paint, wooden chair, various paints, 55x27x28cm
la forcola
From the series, Hirsute collection, 2013-2016, type c colour photograph, photographer: Brunhilde Haeberle, stylist: Brunhilde Haeberle, location: Venice lagoon, Italy, 50x33cm
A prisoner of hope
From the series, Hirsute collection, 2013-2016, type c colour photograph, photographer: Brunhilde Haeberle, stylist: Brunhilde Haeberle, location: Dresden Frauenkirche, Dresden, Germany, 50x33cm
The whistleblower
From the series, works from the (found)ry, 2013-2016, Found Chianti glass bottle from maternal grandfather’s collection, paternal grandfather’s hoe remade in bronze, patina, 26x18x120cm
Malus domestica
From the series, nature strips, 2015-2016, Bronze, patina, 57.5×13.5×1.5cm. Malus domestica edition #2 of 6 in a private collection
white anting
From the series, nature strips, 2016, Remade white ant activity, bronze, patina, 57x12x1.5cm. Edition #1 of 6 in a private collection
torso
From the series, works from the (found)ry, 2016, Found metal, paint, bronze, patina, 52.5x34x5cm. Private collection
A moment of clarity
From the series, works from the (found)ry, 2016, Maternal grandfather’s garden rake remade in bronze, Australian gum nuts remade in bronze, patina 7x33x9cm. Private collection
surface pleasures
From the series, works from the (found)ry, 2016, metal washtub lid belonging to Carmela Avolio, original fig leaf from artist’s backyard tree, bronze, patina, 3x54x54cm. Private collection
The block
From the series, works from the found(ry), 2016, Found hardwood, fabricated bronze, patina, found metal & wooden legs, 44x16x16cm. Private collection
bourgeon / bud
From the series, works from the (found)ry, 2016, Phontinia x fraseri Robusta trunk, bronze, patina, 48×15.5x16cm
Sing-Sing
From the series, works from the (found)ry, 2016, Bronze, patina, 15x17x5cm. Private collection
untitled selfie
From the series, works from the (found)ry, 2016, Found hardwood fence post, bronze, 102x31x5.5cm
Apart
From the series, works from the (found)ry, 2016, Bronze, patina, five elements:3x9x7cm, 5x5x5cm, 4.5x8x5cm, 3×7.5x5cm, 3x12x5cm. Private collection
round and round
From the series, works from the (found)ry, 2016, Metal, paint, wood veneer, bronze, patina, 70x33x33cm. Private collection
Fictive distance
2016, Giclée print, total frame size 78x97cm. Finalist work in 2016 Heyson Prize
Seasonal metamorphose
2017-18, Found wooden blackboard, various paint, various sandpaper collected from 20 years of home renovations, 182x101x2.5cm
Waiting on the Moon
2017-18, Found wood, bronze, 34x29x11cm
diverse
2012-2018, Wooden bed-head & footboard, veneer, bronze, patina, paint, wood, metal, pyrography, 78x101x5cm
one thing leads to another
From the series, Hirsute collection, 2016-2019, type c colour photograph, photographer: Celine Fleury, stylist: Celine Fleury, location: Power’s Lookout Reserve, Alpine National Park, Victoria, Australia, 33x50cm. Finalist work in 10th Prospect Portrait Prize, 2019-2020
Illustrated
2019, Found encyclopedia, paper, bronze, patina, 23x10x16cm. Private collection
It takes time to see the past
2019, Wood, paint, bronze, patina, aluminium photographic tripod stand, 96x76x70cm
It takes time to see the past (detail)
Grass tree tarantella
2019, My father, Angelo Salomone’s garden hoe & South Australian xanthorrhoea spike remade in bronze, patina, 68x19x28cm. Private collection
Harvest
2020, Maternal grandparents’, Angelina & Giovanni Zotti, wooden drying tray, metal vice, various wood, various paint, tin, nails, 107x53x15cm
Unscene
2020, various found wood, various paint, oil, 95x105x5cm. Private collection
Stand
2020, rotating metal banding wheel, eucalyptus wood, various paints, bronze, patina, shellac, 38x23x20cm
Joyville
2020, maternal grandfather Giovanni Zotti’s metal saw, red gum wood fence strainer from Victoria Australia, various sandpaper, wood, bronze, patina, various metal, various paint, 50x200x6cm
Primal landscape
2020, found wooden bed head, various wood, various paint, bronze, patina, 43x95x7cm
Twenty twenty
2020, wooden pasta board belonging to Carmela Avolio (nee Penna), bronze, patina, 70x70x8cm
The aesthetics of border control
From the series, Border control aesthetics, 2020, various wood, various paint, various coloured flocking, bronze, patina, 26x56x14cm. Private collection
1788
2021, metal from maternal grandfather Giovanni Zotti’s collection, paint, bronze, patina, 384x88x3cm. Private collection
1788 (detail)
From our time
2020, Type c colour photograph, 50x33cm. From the online exhibition, Love in the time of Covid-19, a not for profit project from @gagprojects. Collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia & National Museum of Australia. www.solidarity.gagprojects.com
Convergence
2020, type c colour photograph, 33x101cm. Finalist for the 2020 Heysen Prize for Landscape
Stillness (installation view)
Stillness, 2021, installation view @project6.88, Adelaide, Australia. Photograph by Niki Vouis
Woodland
2021, laminated plywood, acrylic green paint, bronze, patina, plastic laminate, metal fasteners, 24×6.5x10cm. Private collection
Stillness.0966
From the series, Stillness, 2021, 53x40cm, found light, pigment print on archival fine art pearl paper
Stillness.0960
From the series, Stillness, 2021, 53x40cm, found light, pigment print on archival fine art pearl paper
Stillness.0948
From the series, Stillness, 2021, 53x40cm, found light, pigment print on archival fine art pearl paper
Steel life
2021, steel, brass, wood, olive extract, bronze, patina, 35x21x2cm. Private collection