Alison Clouston & Boyd

Alison Clouston & Boyd

Bonetown

2004

Found kangaroo and wombat bone, aluminium, soundtrack Lullaby of Bonetown, surround-sound system, slowly scanning light, shadow projection. Size: area 7m x 5.7m, height of bone buildings to 80cm, height of shadow projection to 3.5 m.

The exhibition Ossature, 2004, included the two installation works Bonetown and Nestling Nestling.

Event Schedule

works

Delving & Branching

Immersive installation at Hazelhurst Regional Gallery

2022
Dhalawala - Forest Country

Cementa22, a huge tree in the Hall, a choir, a procession, Wiradjuri Language

2022
Dyerren Dyerren Dragon Tree

The Serpent, the weather, a salvaged tree

2020
Coalface 4

Artwork for action on climate

2020
mirrityana – out in the sunlight

art and science collaboration on the dragon lizard C. mirrityana for Art of Threatened Species

2019
Wreath

A memorial for the end of coal

2019
Mirrityana work in progress

The Art of Threatened Species- first field trip

2018
NatureLovers: Clandulla Camp

Performance and installation for Clandulla State Gallery Survey II.

2018
NatureLovers

Engaging community for a weekend of performance, music and installation

2017
NatureLovers work in progress

Rehearsing NatureLovers for Planet Nowra Bundanon Trust 2017

2017
Tree (hollowed in)

Installation and children’s workshop for the exhibition “Wonder: contemporary art for children” Hazelhurst Regional Gallery Sydney

2016
Tree Change

A whole crushed house dumped in the Royal National Park

2015
Coalface (part 2)

This iteration draws on the work currently touring and this location – at the backstage door of the grand Leichhardt Town Hall

2015
On Clover

Residency and performance in Fall Norway

2014
Coalface 2014

We collaborate with 153 bird species, 153 musicians, and 30 children to take on Big Coal

2014
Carbon Dating

Explores the issues surrounding coal seam gas

2014
BIRD CRY iBook

iBook documenting our installation BIRD CRY that was destroyed by fire

2013
Coalface

Made in response to The Bimblebox Nature Refuge and Big Coal developments in Queensland

2013
Salvage

Timbers stitched with speaker wiring for sound

2012
Bimblebox Art Project

Alison holds a contact mic to Rhonda's stomachs at Bimblebox

2012
Epicorm

Studio fire materials, interactive soundtrack

2012
Dust

When lightning burnt our studio to the ground we saw our artworks reduced to ashes, our tools to rust.

2011
Beaming

On the Wollondilly River at Goulburn

2009
BIRD CRY

"... focus on the terrible finality of extinction..."

2008
World Tree (part two)

Installation for "Climate Changing Climate" Goulburn Regional Gallery and The Tin Sheds

2007
Adrift

Installation for "Grounded; art, activism, environment" Campbelltown

2007
Body of Water

A floating work easvedrops on a river and the sounds of the human body

2006
Potamology

Eavesdropping on Koi/Carp in a Japanese Garden

2005
Nestling Nestling

40 Australian native birds’ nests, interactive soundtrack, wiring ‘tree’ or stave.

2004
Bonetown

A chanting city of bones.

2004
Magical Golland

A winding, sounding chain of twigs leads through a complex of installations in the rooms of an old house.

2000
Drum Horn Moot

Documenting a performance collaboration between sculptors and musicians

2000
Something Short of a Picnic

An installation that was also a stage set and sculptures that were also costumes– this project for the 1988 Adelaide Festival was the culmination of Alison’s 5 month artist-in-residency at the Jam Factory.

1988

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