Unison, Sulman Exhibition, Art Gallery of NSW Bernardo’s installation for this show was a pair of gigantic chopsticks, 5 metres in length decorated in blue dots, making reference to Australian Aboriginal painting.
Project Type: installation
Unrooted
Paintings and installation, The Palm House, Royal Botanical Gardens 2009 The Royal Botanic Gardens of Sydney can be seen as a symbol of European invasion/colonisation of Australia. By its very nature it…
Eternity
Brick Hall, Municipal Gallery, Nagasaki, Japan By covering the walls of the circular shaped gallery, with international language newspapers, which gradually disintegrate into ashes, into a traditional Japanese ‘kebashi’ and turning the…
True Blue
First Draft Gallery April, May 2001 “There is one thing stronger that all the kings and queens and all the armies of the world combined, and that is the power of an…
Game Over
A Carnivale Event, September 1999 “It could be a horror scene from Psycho. A single shower cubicle, blood-red water dripping down the transparent plastic curtains and settling in the plughole. However, GameOver…
Alchemy
Cell Block, Darlinghurst, 1991 “Alchemy” explores the relationship between the Western world and the ‘third world’. Reason being represented by lineal elements contrasted against the raw, untamed elements.
Pink
Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Gymea, Australia, 2000 A simple comment on the lifecycle of consumerism, particularly the pressures on women. Girls grow into women who buy approximately 80% of everything that is sold.
Love Nest
El Club Latino, Casula Power House Arts Centre, 2000 More than an installation ‘Love Nest’ is a visual poem to the infinite resilience of love. Two paper air filled hearts lie triumphantly…
Red Rain
Artspace, Woolloomooloo, Sydney, Australia, September 1999 “My mother used to tell me how, due to the endless violence in the country, she saw rivers carrying dead bodies – “rivers of blood” she…
Maze
Tin Sheds Gallery, University of Sydney, Australia, March 2002 “Entering this exhibit is like being trapped in an unsettling nightmare. Walls of thick plastic sheeting covered in strange gloomy light lead you…