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Seeking a Meridian
Galerie de Roussan, Paris, 2011
This project has been supported by Arts Victoria

Exhibition publication with ficto-critical essay in French & English (2.6MB)

Seeking a Meridian examines the contradictions of the historical measurement of time, in contrast with its material reality and abstractions of temporal experience. In this critical moment of technological development and temporal human disembodiment this series seeks out the place of time and its present relationship to matter and memory.



Amid these contemporary questions of time, Seeking a Meridian revisits and retrieves specific
histories, such as the global influence of French devices and conceptions of time measurement,
the historical conjunction of this history within the lineage of French revolutionary politics, and
the social impact of the temporal structuring of daily life across western civilisation.





Above: Seeking a Meridian, 2011
Top and below: Crystalline Time, 2011




The Metre



The wolf chases the rat, pair of found crystals, 2011 (above)

Longtitude 21/21

This photo essay documents a 24-hour journey across the globe. The work reveals the difference between the time of travel and global timekeeping, experiencing it 'as the crow flies,' from the shortest to the longest day of the year. Starting from the Prime Meridian, Greenwich, the documentation commences at 12 midday on 21 December, with one photograph taken every hour of the trip for the entire distance from London to the artist's home in Melbourne, Australia. Playing cards are used to record the time that has passed, reviving the forgotten numeric link between cartomancy, playing cards and calendars, in which the accumulation of all the cards in a pack totals 364.





Speed of Light (after Léon Foucault), acrylic paint and inlaid mirror on wood, 2011 (above)