Floating Land 'Wandering Thirst 2009 Niche 2013 SeamLine 2017 SiteLine 2019 Clash 2021

Floating Land is a site specific 'Art in Nature' biennial event, where artists exhibit their work in Queensland's Sunshine Coast local landscape. 'Wandering Thirst' Floating Land 2009 site specific at Boreen Point - Niche - Floating Land 2013 site specific at Boreen Point SeamLine - Floating Land 2017 site specific at Noosa Woods SiteLine - Floating Land 2019 site specific at Boreen Point. Clash - Floating Land 2021 Tamara Kirby & Corrie Wright

Wednesday, January 17, 2024

FAKE CAKE - NRG- known associates

In 2016, the Oxford Dictionary officially added a new word/term to the English language ... POST TRUTH.

Since then, as we accelerate towards a world informed and altered by Artificial Intelligence, words like Pig Butchering, Delulu, Doxxing and Algospeak are also in common use. These terms point not only to a change in language but to our perception of reality and what we might have once assumed were fundamental truths.

In response to this phenomenon, artists Tamara Kirby & Corrie Wright are entering the cyber world to coin their own word and claim copyright!

FAKE CAKE is here!

Just as a curated reality can create a disconnect between appearances and truths, FAKE CAKE delves into the concept of the sweet/bitter; an analogy for the illusory façade of well-being, security, and happiness that society often packages and sells to us as ‘truth’. This work probs the origins of illusion, ranging from media influences to social norms and political narratives. Our response ponders the intriguing accord between the sweetbitter mirroring, the complexities of ‘it’. As an apocalyptic pronoun ‘it’ serves as the focal point of this research, embodying a multiplicity of meanings and interpretations.

FAKE CAKE raises questions about the nature of truth and interrogates the blurred line of where reality merges with illusion. Will the depreciating power of 'truth', over time, erode the fabric of our real and everyday lives?

Do we even care?

Meanwhile as the building blocks of the Fakery (Bakery) rise and fall with our appetite caught in perpetual re-flux, the distant promises of pristine planets abound!

Tamara Kirby & Corrie Wright

Wednesday, January 19, 2022

2021 Floating Land - CLASH

Clash - Tamara Kirby & Corrie Wright CLASH -

A seemingly ‘transmogrified’ landscape of seven hundred tiny cushions morphing the rocky outcrop, a paradox that poses the ambiguous question…’how far are we prepared to go’? As we enter a new heightened era of global awareness we utilize our installations to further critique pending climate change issues. Our intervention in nature aims to accentuate the need to consider a ‘soft landing’ in our future approach, to minimise and cushion the effects our impakt has on habitats. Being environmental artists we are continually compelled to offer ephemeral installations that stimulate conversations and question our place in the environmental agenda. In our work we deliberately introduce synthetic materials into nature to form a contrast, a CLASH, a prickle in the side, a point of departure from the coveted pristine territories we all desire….and can never have.

Sunday, May 10, 2020

2019 Floating Land SiteLine

SiteLine - Tamara Kirby & Corrie Wright

SiteLine exposes a fragment of the vast hidden network of lines, trails and pathways throughout our environment. From point to point co-ordinances, the network is open ended system connected by invisible membranes. The watchtower an elevated platform constructed to view, oversee, signal and deliver warning.

The myriad of membranes are subjected to constant disruption as natural and unnatural forces forge their way through life. Some disruptions move over the membrane and dissipate without a trace, others are filtered through, leaving a recorded residue for eternity.

Saturday, May 9, 2020

Postcard video

Tuesday, October 3, 2017

2017 Floating Land installation 'seamline'

Our work ‘ SeamLine’ offers us the opportunity to engage with the complexities and legacies of past interruptions to the Noosa River environs. How do we speak of the forces of humans and nature, of indiscriminate growth and indiscriminate decay and loss? Can we still find the lost fragments of the primitive and wild and make them visible? Can we be satisfied with contemporary composites in the natural environment? In time, will they take on a beauty and force of their own?

site sandbag groin Noosa Woods

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

wandering thirst goes OS

the Eco Art Project

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

truth in arts award - WANDERING THIRST WON!

PARKS VICTORIA ANNOUNCED WINNERS FOR PEOPLE AND NATURE ART AWARD –and their local Queensland Artists
Artists Tamara Kirby (Cooran) and Corrie Wright (Maleny) have won the inaugural ‘Truth in Art Award’ for their work, Wandering Thirst.
Receiving over 100 submissions, the awards challenged artists to interpret the relationship between people, parks and the “inconvenient truth” of climate change, which is affecting the environment and the health and wellbeing of society.

““We are excited about receiving the award. This award allows for the acknowledgment of 'art in the environment' and its importance. For us, the Award reinforces our belief in the capacity of contemporary art to connect with others in different ways. Many thanks to Parks Victoria and everyone involved in the Truth in Art Award, we commend the visionaries in the organisation who understand the impact of art. We are both passionate artists and passionate environmentalists working collaboratively in our own art practices and in the community sector.”

The work 'Wandering Thirst' was supported by The Sunshine Coast Regional Council and Urban Arts Projects.

Saturday, August 15, 2009

DID YOU KNOW YOU ARE DRINKING THE SAME WATER THAT DINOSAURS DRANK?

Monday, July 6, 2009

Toasting - a cast on thousands

...................................................................................................many many thanks

Installation Dream Team
o Drew
o Jack
o Avid
o Malcolm
o Kurt
o Steve
o Birdman
o Anya – cook extraordinaire

Transporters
o Avid
o Malcolm
o Steve
o Drew – canoe
o Andrew

wetsuit lenders

Framing sponsors – Urban Art Projects
o Brendan Morse – project manger
o Hamish – frame fabricator

Perspex
o ASAP Plastics
o Siobhan & Udo
Perspex expert
o Peter

Co-collaborators – bottle booth
o Trish
o Mell
o Victoria

Surrogate parents
o Sue & Ron

On site
o Derek & Steve(camping ground mangers)

Floating Land Team
o Christine o Nicole
o Jess o Nina
o Ross o Steve

Special mention to Ross Annels & Susan Coburn for help during one of our daily ‘van’ crises

Saturday, July 4, 2009

bump out

as time goes by

changing climates

bottle booth - setting in place

wandering thirst workshop 21/6/09

firings by the lake 26/6/09

community raft event

ten days at Floating Lands

Tuvaluan Ceremony 27/6/09

and then there was 4! 21/6/09

onsite at last

Dday_18/6/09

without these people the day would have been very different and virtually impossible

Installation Dream Team - Drew - Jack - Avid - Malcolm - Andrew - Birdman - Kurt -Steve - Anya cook extraordinaire

Wetsuit lenders

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

17/6/09

layers on layers

lake testing again and again and again

there were 300 bottles stuffed in a car ...and if one

framing

Sunday, June 14, 2009

12/6/09

Saturday, June 13, 2009

framing for workshop

11/6/09

“Your artist statement for “FAKE CAKE” is a thought-provoking exploration of the impact of neologisms and the post-truth era. It delves into the concept of the “sweetbitter” as an analogy for the illusion of well-being and happiness that society presents as truth. The work examines the origins of illusion, from media influences to social norms and political narratives. It also raises important questions about the nature of truth and the potential erosion of its power over time, as well as what we hold sacred and essential. The idea of becoming numb to warning signals and easy prey to post-truth influences is a compelling reflection on the current state of our society. The mention of “pristine planets” adds an intriguing layer to the narrative. It’s an intriguing concept that mirrors the complexities of modern society and it’s contemporary issues.” ChatGPT

Corrie on Collaboration

Passionately affiliated with collaboration I would like to call attention to several layers of thought one that connects us to why we pursue life’s questions of how we fit and why that matters. Collaboration for me considers all parts of the whole process. Because of this I would like to suggest that to understand art it would help if we are not separate to the artistic process nor is it singularly or distant from the artist or the audience. Participation in collaborative art in my mind is an inclusive approach and remains open to interpretation by many. I think today we seek from art insight and illumination not necessarily information and guidance on how we should think or behave. As artist or audience you will engage with the work on your own terms. These will respond to the conditioning of our times and the place in which we are living.
It seems to me that collaborators are boundary crossers they often reject either or choices they would rather seek multiply options and blended solutions. This combines the search for meaning from external circumstance and internal will by bringing experiences to the surface.
The collaborative artist is possible rendered less majestic but also more accessible, maybe even better able to reveal creative insight as a human capacity rather than a divine gift. This could easily come about by sharing complimentary skills that engage to create a shared knowledge one that had not been previously understood or would have come about on its own. Collaboration is not always an easy relationship it requires deep dependency and trust relying on honesty, integrity and effective communication. The work then activates parts of these contacts that come from experience. Joining the dots when you only have the outcome of the artwork requires time and effort. Artists are adept at leaving clues in layers that give meaning and relevance to their process.

How many glues does it take to glue a few hundred drops?

You would be surprised! (as we were)
The drama of the gluing process!
We are down to the pointy end of business with only a few sleeps to go and we have struck our first real hurdle GLUES
There are so many right but in my experience you are not always doing what they say you should do and generally it is a straight forward process gluing same to same! but we are visual artists and the rules are different we want anything to stick to anything and QUICKLY!!
The problem being we needed transparent clear glues and yes there is a lot on the market araldite worked but was messy and hard to handle and was not UV stable so would turn yellow. Weldbond was another option it worked too but because it was sandwiched between cast resin and Perspex it didn’t dry. Phone calls to various sources gave us enough information about glues for a life time. A trip to Caloundra to ASAP Plastics gave us the glue Acrifix specially for Perspex but would it work on cast resin? Well it did BUT it trapped bubbles between layers which caused it to look cloudy + it needed UV light to cure it. More testing more glue this time trying plumbers glue same deal as Weldbond. More testing 5am!!! It turned out that it was not the glue that mattered but how you applied it. Acrifix was used successfully (so far, the works not out there yet!!) and the bubbles were alleviated by applying thin layers with a brush.
applied it.