studio drawings

here's a couple of drawings on my studio walls at the moment:

i've got about 30-40 speaker cones i've collected from hard rubbish over the years and am thinking about building a giant, geometric wave that is embedded with them all. this is an early plan for that idea.

the scale of the enterprise is a little daunting, but summer might be the perfect time to bring this to fruition.

 

this is a few little sculptural ideas, i really would like to re-visit some kinetic elements in my work. i made a working fountain in a large sculpture for a show at seventh gallery in feb2010, and quite liked the feel of it. so these are some thoughts about fountain based works.

this is a large ink drawing, about 1m by 1m, that took many hours to make. 

i'd like to make a series of these, probably with more cuboid elements to them, so this sits on my wall to remind me to get back to it at some point. the series would be similar to the HoneySucker_series i recently made for a show at shifted gallery, and have almost sold out of now (8 out of 12 have been sold). those will be on display at the sofitel hotel in melbourne in 2011. ideally, another series of these cuboids would be completed by middle of 2011, and i think probably about 6 would suffice.

  
these ones are based on an idea expressed by goethe, that plants grow with two dominant and equal forces - vertical drive and horizontal drive. so they are an abstracted representation of those forces, and in some way remind me of mondrian's paintings of trees, with his vertical and horizontal abstractions of the branches. the patterning on the cuboids is an abstracted representation of grass.