Winner of Art of Camping - SPLORE Festival 2014

'Sit with me, remind me I'm great'  - Giant park bench installation. 
Park benches hold the magical quality of getting us to stop, sit, reflect and talk to each other. This Bright Calm City installation was on show at SPLORE Festival 2014, New Zealand’s biggest music and arts festival, and won the Art of Camping award. 

The installation was a giant 6 metre long and 3 metre high wooden park bench for festival guests to grab someone they love, sit and share 3 things that make them amazing to you.  Creating a positive space for couples, families and mates to remind each other they’re great and loved right now.

HUMAN CONNECTION - Exhibited at The Big Day Out, NZ, 2014.

This Bright Calm City digital installation took an industrial structure and softened it with words that reach out to passersby, creating a human connection through the most unlikely channel. 

Taking over a digital road sign to generate personal words to resonate with anyone traveling past; whether you’re walking, cycling, jogging or driving. It was live for 3 days in the build up to the much awaited Big Day Out music festival in Auckland, New Zealand. 

MAKE MY HEART FLUTTER - Auckland Waterfront Installation.

You can feel a positive space the moment you step into it. It’s the energy of people that constantly create that flutter of joy in an area and also within each other. 

 This Bright Calm City installation creates a visual representation of that joy, a giant heart shaped steel structure, lined with brightly coloured flower windmills. It invites people to interact, passing on their energy to bring the heart and space to life. The natural wind through the structure also brings the windmills to life, creating a constantly moving installation fuelled by the energy of people and nature.

I was recently lucky to be part of Art in the Dark, New Zealand’s premiere light festival which brightens up Western Park annually in Auckland and involves creative projects from the innovative artists in New Zealand and abroad, all free for the public to view.

Every day we're surrounded with messages of 'Don't', 'Stop' and 'Caution',  this installation  experimented with digital road signs, set up to interact with drivers traveling past the event, capturing a moving audience and extending the event out on to the streets.

Different messages were broadcast to drivers depending on the speed they were travelling, those travelling under the speed limit were rewarded with ‘You Rock’ and those exceeding the speed limit were advised to ‘Chill Baby Chill’.

After being installed for the first 2 days, it had delivered 39,765 drivers with a ‘You Rock’ message and 11,452 drivers with a ‘Chill Baby Chill’ message.

Thank you to the Ponsonby Business Association for sponsorship this year and to all the staff at Art in the Dark and Celery Productions for making this event happen. Outstanding effort :)

Grafitti Banners

Metallic coated foam board, silver domed links, spray painted letters. Ready to head to the streets.

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I’ve had my eye on doing this for ages. The stunning autumn leaves that fall down and completely laden Franklin Rd each year in Ponsonby, (Auckland, New Zealand) made it the perfect place to trial it out.

Gathering leaves over a few days and taking them back to the Bright Calm City workshop - laying them all out and lightly coated them on both sides with a water-based spray paint.

Then carting them out early morning to place them in position as a vibrant pile of rainbow leaves for morning commuters to view as they wander past. 

A quote that I created for the 'Balloons for the taking' series, which always gets a good reaction. The coolest thing is the story behind this quote. I was helping a good friend with her daughters birthday party, I was on face painting duty. I'd painted a few butterfly faces which seemed to be going well until the birthday girl sat down in front of me. I asked what she'd like. She thought about it, looked me straight in the eye and said "Make my face like Xmas". Brilliant. Wrote the words down immediately. Hands down the best request ever.