| Boyd musician, composer, sound artist | Alison Clouston visual artist | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Selected works CV | boyd@burragorang.org | Selected works CV | aclouston@burragorang.org | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| An Afternoon of Boyd Music 2007 | Kuru Alala 2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Boyd's concert at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music featuring members of the world music group Mara! | %20.jpg) |
This exhibition, at the Gold Coast City Gallery and touring through 2010, emerged from the collaboration of the Tjanpi Desert Weavers, Alison Clouston, and Maria Fernanda Cardoso, working together in the Tjanpi womens' country in central Australia. Alison's work "Make camp" is a response to the ongoing architecture of camp life in the desert. Here's a detail, showing three vessels made from vehicle inner tube rubber. Pictures from the launch | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The Monday Club 2009 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Boyd, Tony Gorman and Steve Morley playing at a recent concert in Sydney. Their next concert "Summer" is on 11/3/10 at the Cafe Church in Glebe (details soon) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alison Clouston and Boyd collaborate on sound sculpture installations. Have a look and listen below. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| BIRD CRY from the Grassy Box Woodlands 2008 | Beaming 2009 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"... focus on the terrible finality of extinction..." |  |
Alison and Boyd have created a site specific work for Wandering the Wollondilly a group exhibition at the Goulburn Waterworks from 8 August-5 November 2009. The work features sound recordings of the Waterworks museums' Appleby Bros. beam steam engine (1883) and the Horizontal Engine by Hick Hargreaves & Co. (1860) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| World Tree (Part Two) 2007 | Body of Water 2007 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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A whole tree in a gallery. The sounds of climate change. |  |
A floating work easvedrops on a river and the sounds of the human body. |
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| Adrift 2006 | Wake 2005 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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A work about water, drought, a landscape and a major city. |  |
A degraded waterway and a pampered one. Carp and Koi. Cattle and vulnerable birds. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ossature 2004 | Magical Golland 2001 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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A chanting city of bones, conversing birdnests, sculpture made from burrs and a circle of traps. |  |
A winding, sounding chain of twigs leads through a complex of installations in the rooms of an old house. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Burragorang International Artists Workshop | Daily Fungi | Links | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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In 2003 we invited 21 artists from around the world to our home in remote Southeast Australia for a 2 week workshop of cross-cultural dialogue, collaboration and art-making. Alison's article for Art Review. |  |
Interview for Artlink magazine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alison is represented in New Zealand by Bowen Galleries www.bowengalleries.com | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||