Project Title: "Heat Exchange"

Project Location: Australia / USA

Requested Funding: $ 400

Project Proposal:

Assistance financing my trip from Australia to the US to install the "Heat Exchange" exhibition at SNAG 2012.

I am one of three co-curators whose exhibition proposal Heat Exchange: A Cross-Continental Survey of Enamel has been accepted for the upcoming SNAG conference in Arizona. I am also the only curator who happens to live in Australia.

I intend to use the Crafthaus project grant of $400 to help fund my trip to this exhibition in May next year. The SNAG conference will take place form the 23rd – 26th of May 2012, and I intend to be there before the conference begins to help install the works, and then stay on for the conference.

More impetus for my first trip to the US (outside of a Hawaii stopover some 12 years ago) is that I also have just found out that my works have made it into the Elizabeth R. Raphael’s Founders Prize, due to open in February of next year, at the Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh. As you might expect, I also hope to be able to see this exhibition, amongst many others, while I am in the country. Thus I plan to make a trip of several weeks, for which I am currently trying to scramble funds together, as I live solely off the income of my art.

The three curators come from across the globe, as do the participating artists, so we can truly call ourselves cross-continental. My co-curators are Elizabeth Turrell and Beate Gegenwart, with Elizabeth based in England and Beate in Wales, though originally from Germany.

The Heat Exchange exhibition already has a blog site at http://heat-exchange.crimsoncactus.net/ which will be updated by each of the artists once the project starts (in September) and as it progresses.

Attached to this request are images of a recent enameled works by the artist, the likes of which are intended to be be created for the show. They are all from 2011.

Infinity Affinity: A work made from a recycled steel baking dish, in homage to Professor Ethel Harriet Raybould. Raybould taught as a domestic science lecturer in the 1920's in order to pay to attend the University of Queensland to study mathematics. The work uses the Koch Snowflake, a fractal, as its base pattern, and was enamelled with clear vitreous enamel over mild steel, hence the brown ‘rusted’ colour of the final work.

Three from Three: These works are made from thirteen repetitions of the same three-tiered radial pattern. Their structure relies on the tension achieved in threading 0.45 mm stainless steel cable through the 1mm thick horizontal members, which are steel and titanium. The enamelled stainless steel work has untwined steel cable ‘hair’, which is held in place by using the vitreous enamel as a sort of glue.

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