Cococonstance (2023), single-channel HD video, 1620x1080 / 16:9, 15.46 minutes

Photographed by Prue Stent


Performed by Oliver Saraviego, Eugene Choi, Mick Klepner-Roe, Geoffrey Watson, Kate Meakin, Raf McDonald, Jojo Gauci-Seddon, Seb Henry-Jones


Ella Sowinska - Director of photography 

Nicholas Smith - sound recordist. set dressing and art coordination 

Jimmy Nuttall - written by, directed by and edited by 

Daniel Jenastch - sound designer and musical score composition 


Commissioned by EO Gill and the National Art School


2021



Backpack Of Love, cotton and polyester bed sheets from op shops and friends, steam dyed with rusted fencing wire and leaves, ceramic oxide, wire and hay, 2020 - 2021


Photographed by Tim Hardy 

Thanks to Bella Gordon, Ben Sheen and Georgia Robenstone 


The panels of fabric of which I am sewing new JN Sacs are made from this big bag. I know I have been saying for months that they will be available - and they will be soon. Online soon. For those have ordered, they are being sewed rn. 


“I wanted to do a portrait of what I love and making bags last year gave me purpose. I found a process I enjoyed, buying sheets from the senior op shop volunteers. I laundered and ironed them, steam dyed them in leaves and sticks I found around. I wrapped my wares for delivery, took them to the post office and dispatched them to friends across the world. The Kathmandu Unisac, mum bought when I was in primary school, was hers then mine. Now in my 30s, I still have it and I decided to make an enlarged sculpture of it, one hundred times bigger and from the sheets I had collected. From the jangling over time, both zippers had fallen off last year. I cast them in bronze, immensely heavy. The lay on the ground of the gallery. I wanted to footnote the piece with a photo. I thought about all the collages I made with Nick in our covid lockdown country-city exchange last year. Some were personal images of past loves and partners. Then misc found stuff. The collages were poems for those passed times, because last year, time paused. I printed out a photo I took of a photo collage by filmmaker Curt McDowell in a group exhibition at Participant Inc, titled “Things” curated by Bryan Nordeen. I travelled to New York in 2016, when I fell in love, that’s when I saw it. This time proved fruitful in making art. This year, I staged his photo, and got my friends Jacqui Shelton and Ella Sowinska to both shoot me. The intimacy and exposure of McDowell’s body on his mattress, the doubling of himself, his bottom, the birds eye view, his gayze, a doll on the bed. I wanted to make similar and have my bums facing the bag.”



'My Bed, My Body, My Bag' 
Presented at TCB Gallery, Melbourne 2021

Install image by Jordan Halsall






























2020









































2019


'Houses'
2019
Looped single channel 5 minute digital video

‘Blanket Pussy Boots’
2019
Burned pine, acrylic fleece and paper

Performed by Antoine Weil 

Thank you to the Ian Potter Cultural Foundation and NAVA Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship in the support for these pursuits

Presented at HEAD (La Haute école d’art et design), Geneva, Switzerland
Installation shots by Neige Sanchez




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Stills of 'Fabulina'
2019
Looped single channel 19 minute digital video

Performed by Brian Fuata, Mick Klepner Roe, Kate Meakin, Luigi Vescio, Jimmy Nuttall, Astrid Connelly, Megan Payne, Callan Bradley Hales,  Ellen Davies, Rosie Isaacs, Alice Quinn, Danielle Reynolds, Nicholas Smith, Alice Heywood, Lydia Connolly-Hiyatt
Videography: Elle Marsh, Ella Sowinska and Jimmy Nuttall 
Musical composition: Jono Nash, Bonnie Cummings, Jimmy Nuttall 
Sound recording: Liam Barton 

Presented at 7UP, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne 2019
And on recess.net.au in 2020

Images by Jacqui Shelton and Jimmy Nuttall

Link to essay on Fabulina by Aodhan Madden featured on recess.net.au























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Performance documentation from 'Sauerkraut Water Slide'
2019
Live performance combining painted cotton and hand-dyed costumes, wooden clogs made of council oak trees from North Fitzroy, blanket fleece, text, sauerkraut and drums
45 minutes

Performed by Leah Landau, Jimmy Nuttall, Nicholas Smith, Luigi Vescio
Drums by Bonnie Cummings
Presented at Kings Artist Run in Melbourne, Australia

Images by Jacqui Shelton







































Performance documentation from 'Sauerkraut Water Slide'
2019
Solo live performance part of Queer Economies, St. Heliers Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne

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2018

A selected collection of works on paper, pertinent, sentimental iPhone photography, storyboarding, documentation of rehearsals and studio works in progress.



























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‘Marquette for lounge room'
2018
Plywood, acrylic, painted aluminium and paper
60 x 75 x 45 cm



‘Burlap body’
2018
Hessian, foam and chicken wire
Dimensions vary




‘Yoga blanket’
 2018
Synthetic blanket

'Sofa-bed mattress from farm'
Mattress and rope
2018

Collection of textiles including papa's wool items, childhood cricket battling pad, 'Qantas Flag' silk (2014), 
2018  

'Kirsty's heated blanket'
2018

'Sheets from our beds and a fleece heart from Marrickville'
2018 

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‘Happy Birthday’
2018
Aluminium flashing and acrylic paint, looped 4 minute digital video
Dimensions vary

Performed by Mick Klepner Roe and Jimmy Nuttall
Videography by Sheena Colquhoun




Harry's burial
2018


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The Mechanics Institute Residency, collaboration with Olivia Koh and Nick Smith, Next Wave, Melbourne 2018









Metcalfe Hall Residency, collaboration with Olivia Koh and Nick Smith, Victoria, Australia 




















2017


'Aunty Kirsty out front of Towerhill in the 80s' 
2017
Found photo




Public water fountain in Syracuse, Sicily 
August 2017




















Somebody's home, Kassel, Germany
September 2017

Back of Karolina as she talks on the phone and waits for a tram in Bemowo, Warsaw
September 2017


The pink walls and concentration on the RER metro train, Paris
September 2017

Pacotille in the apartment of Cedric and Yves, Canal de St. Martin, ParisSeptember 2017

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'Mutual Love And Support'
2017
Looped double channel digital video presented on two crooked screens
16.55 minutes

Performances by Mick Klepner Roe, Debra Batton, Zak Pidd, Zoey Dawson, Sheena Colquhoun, David Huggins, Edward Anatov and Tim Hennessy 
Videography by Rick Douglas, Kate Meakin, Jimmy Nuttall and Ella Sowinska


The video was presented alongside a sculpture (in collaboration with Nicholas Smith) that echoed the basketball court outside the gallery window or provisional market shelving. Atop it, ceramic vessels, inspired by vases from paintings of Sydney Charm School artist, Adrian Feint. 

As part of a collaboration ‘I am crying’ with Nicholas Smith, presented at Firstdraft, Sydney, 2017.

Pictured with ‘Bleachers’ by Jimmy Nuttall and Nick Smith, 2017, acrylic on pine, terracotta and porcelain, dimensions vary


Installation shot by Zan Wimberley

















Mutual Love And Support production documentation 




frontyard projects inc., Sydney








Frangipanis, shorts, blanket and shared sweaty bed





"Shower (MASSACHUSSETTS)" 









‘Shower (MASSACHUSSETTS)’ is a sculpture referencing a work from 2012 and 2013. A fountain costumed as a domestic shower presents mosaic figures. It references the bodies of friends in photographs from a trip to Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA in 2016.

Presented in ‘Arsehole turns inside out, rest of body reluctantly follows’ at Pansy Gallery alongside Aodhan Madden and Brigid Fitzgerald in 2017. Then presented part of Interior Monologues: Elise Harmsen & Jimmy Nuttall at True Estate, Melbourne 2017.

Images by Lauren Burrow


'Arsehole turns inside out, rest of body reluctantly follows' with Brighid Fitzgerald, Aodhan Madden, Jimmy Nuttall at Pansy, Melbourne 2017




















2016 










'THE GREAT WORK BEGINS’ is docu-art-road-movie fragmenting a story of two men falling in love - the author and subject. Set very soon after the 2016 Pulse massacre in Orlando, Florida and amidst the heated Clinton-Trump election.


Archival poster from the former "Victorian AIDS Council" from the Australian Lesbian and Gay Archives, 2016

‘GINA’
2015 - 2016
Enamel, steel, frankincense, looped single channel digital video, 13.48 minutes

‘GINA’ at Bus Projects, Melbourne 2016\

Installation shot by Matthew Stanton















‘Davies St Feb '14'

2015

Inkjet print on rag paper, plaster cast frame



Above and below documentation from 'Too Soon' with Chris Sciuto at Duckett Street Studios, Melbourne 2015



Installation shot by Christo Crocker






'GINA' production stills 2015










'GINA' production still




Studio assemblages at Duckett St Studio, Brunswick, 2015









'GINA' storyboarding snapshots






























































2014

Oscar's burial, 2014


San Francisco street, 2014












'Untitled (David and dove)'
2014
Silk and enamel on hessian
Dimensions vary 

'Avril in garden' and 'Garden' 2014
Silk, ribbon, charcoal and enamel on hessian 
Dimensions vary 





Claudia Weber installing floor drawing, 2014, Prospect Lefferts Garden, New York

Mood-boards from New York, Copenhagen and Crete, 2014 






































My bed in West Brunswick, Victoria, Australia, 2014
'Qantas Flag'
2014
Digital print on silk, or acrylic painting, dowel and rope































































2013













































































































2012