The continuous series
a continuous state
a continuous movement
a continuous defense
The work titled The Continuous Series references the 1960’s Italian Architect group Superstudio and their Continuous Monument Project, which envisaged, through collage, a gridded structure spanning the globe. The Continuous Series is formed by 3 sub series: Continuous Defense, Continuous Movement, and Continuous State made during a period of 6 years, 2009-2015. The work addressed themes of dystopian futures. It explored imagined defenses that cross urban and rural landscapes and architectural schemes of future social and political planning.
The series explores questions around the role and purpose of the artist within the discipline of architecture. It explores how collage acts as a creative hub for the two disciplines who share common methodologies and approaches.
“Today architects are concerned with human needs, but there is still exploration to be made on that tenuous border between art and architecture where the abstract artist and the architect speak a common language. Architecture must be left to the architect. Is the artist to remain a chamber architect or a back-room boy, or is there a real place for him in architecture? By its very nature such an architectonic art can have something to offer the architect, since it is pure and not utilitarian.”
Mary Martin, (Artist) 1957,
a continuous state
continuous state-department 111
collage 21 x 29cm 2013
continuous state-department 802
collage 21 x 29cm 2013
continuous state-department 101
collage 21 x 29cm 2013
continuous state-department 803
collage 21 x 29cm 2013
continuous state-department 801
collage 21 x 29cm 2103
continuous movement- 202
collage 21 x 29cm 2013
continuous state-department 102
collage 21 x 29cm 2013
continuous state-department 703
collage 21 x 29cm 2013
continuous state-department 502
collage 21 x 29cm 2013
a continuous movement
continuous movement- sub-district 1
collage 21 x 29cm 2013
continuous movement-sub-district-2
collage 21 x 29cm 2013
continuous movement - western department
collage 21 x 29cm 2013
continuous movement-scheme for a northeastern estate
collage 21 x 29cm 2013
continuous movement-sub-district 3
collage 21 x 29cm 2013
continuous movement - scheme for a southwestern estate
collage 21 x 29cm 2013
continuous movement - market corridor 5
collage 21 x 29cm 2011
continuous movement - notes 2
collage 21 x 29cm 2012
continuous movement - northern seaboard depot
collage 21 x 29cm 2011
a continuous defence
continuous defence-rural archway
collage 29 x 42cm 2009
continuous defence - urban archway
collage 29 x 42cm 2009
continuous defence-northern corridor
collage 29 x 21cm 2009
continuous defence-scheme for an arch
collage 29 x 42cm 2009
continuous defence-southern gate
collage 10 x 15cm 2009
continuous defence-western sea wall
collage 10 x 15cm 2009
continuous defence-northern break
collage 15 x 15cm 2009
continuous defence-southern cape
collage 10 x 15cm 2009