Boyd

musician, composer, sound artist

Alison Clouston

visual artist

Selected works  CV boyd@burragorang.org Short Bio and joint CV Selected works   CV aclouston@burragorang.org
The Monday Club 2010 World Tree (part three) 2010
Boyd plays contrabass clarinet every Monday with some extraordinary musicians. Their next concert is on 27/6/10 at Clifton School of Arts www.myspace.com/mondayclubpage Have a listen Have a look on uTube Alison was commissioned by Brave New Works Festival to create an epehmeral work for the Kwoorabup Walk Trail. Denmark, WA. To honour a giant Karri tree, remnant of vast forests fallen in the river – lighthouse towers for lopped branches, reflected candle constellation, a log-runing performance in darkness over water. Supported by Sidney Myer Foundation and Denmark Arts, and volunteers
An Afternoon of Boyd Music 2007 Kuru Alala Eyes Open 2009
Boyd's concert at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music featuring members of the world music group Mara! The Tjanpi Desert Weavers invited Alison Clouston and Maria Fernanda Cardoso, to work with them in their country in central Australia, the NPY Aboriginal Lands. From the Gold Coast City Gallery, the resulting exhibtion tours nationally through 2010. For Alison's work, click on the image left. For more pictures, words, dates and venus visit Kuru Alala blog
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
"... 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
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.

Adrift 2006
Wake 2005
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
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
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