Selected Creative electronics artworks
Note that LEDs do not photograph well (too white and bright); they are more subtle and jewel-like IRL
I’m Here 2024-5
- Sewable LEDs, switch, recycled and customised fabric
- A velcro-backed, wearable pocket/patch
- Hidden switch lights it up for moments when you need to get attention
Proof of concept experiments 2024-5
- Experiments combining embroidery with electronics
Carrot on Stick 2019
- Kinetic sculpture: recycled toy parts, cardboard, fabric, electronics (Arduino microcontroller, servo motor, piezo buzzer) 4D Systems screen
- Explores the possibilities of transcendence, of being “still” in the moment, as we simultaneously witness the disintegration of the real
- A comment on children's entrancement by the screen
Masked and Watching 2017
- Back before masks acquired their COVID-era meanings, this little work was masked and watching for you to make a move ...
- An interactive installation - mixed media, Arduino, motion sensor and LED light
(Homage to) The Shrimp 2014
- An interactive brooch embedded in an upcycled dress
- Electronics (Lilypad microcontroller, and sewable LEDs), fabric, crystals
- Created as part of an artist residency and exhibited at Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts in Townsville
- Brooch is controlled by a discreet hip switch that changes the central LED colour and the peripheral white lights
- Brooch has a number of states: from gently twinkling through to frenetic
- Hand washable
Don't Talk to Me 2016
- Another interactive brooch: electronics (Lilypad microcontroller, sewable LEDs, pieces of standard LEDs)
- A response to working in an open plan office: a traffic light that indicates the wearer's availability
- The lights change through a switch on the shirt opening; the microcontroller is under the right collar
- Hand washable
- Later developed with assistance into a 3D printed standalone piece (inset)