The Beautiful Series 

Installation view at the Fremantle Arts Centre in Western Australia

CIRCLESQUARETRIANGLE

Installation at the Western Australian Museum for the Beyond Garment exhibition in 2010.

Beyond Garment Installation

Body, Provocation

Matrix Series

Collaboration with Nick Fitzpatrick for Colosoul Magazine, 2011

COLLABORATION WITH NICK FITZPATRICK

Collaboration with Nick Fitzpatrick for Colosoul Magazine, 2011


Collaboration with Nick Fitzpatrick

A collaborative work with international fashion and beauty photographer Robyn Beeche and Sydney artist Gai Mather. The work features emerging dancers in Melbourne with Delfs' objects, and projected films against their moving bodies. This ephemeral performance was documented and exhibited as large C Type prints with the objects installed. 2008 

REVOLUTIONS

Infinity Space

Infinity Matrix

I was commissioned by architect David Barr to work with him to produce the key motif of the set design for a new dance production called Steps Dance Company in Perth, Western Australia. Barr based his design on a piece of my work and he worked with me to produce it.

Phoenix

I am in interdisciplinary artist and my practice explores the nature of constructed space and
how perceptions of our environment are built through utilizing architecture and garment
construction to investigate their shared theoretical and production strategies. Work explores the
rendering of space through objects that vacillate between habitations and figurative sculpture
articulated by the exchange of qualities from the body (organic) and the built environment
(inorganic). Outcomes are often sculptural and may resonate with or confront the ergonomics
of the human body which is usually present by inference. Materials used evoke movement and
changing mass in the structural support and shifting surface. Luminous prismatic shapes tend to
hover in space, on the floor or attached to walls. Non-orientable surfaces orchestrate interplay
of reconfigurable architectonic forms which imply continuous expansion and protracted stillness
with a delicate sense of equipoise. Applied to the body, the objects envelope and distort the
silhouette, and when installed create an unfamiliar sensuality by erupting from surfaces recalling
corporeal and architectonic topographies. Outcomes often blur the line between
interior/exterior, object/surface, permanent/ephemeral, gender/genderless, nature/culture.

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