Artworks

My art practice centres around creating immersive installation and screen works. I have several long term collaborative partnerships and also work with other artists on one-off animation projects. Below is a selection of recent work.

Isobel Knowles & Van Sowerwine

An artistic collaboration spanning more than 20 years, we create technologically adventurous, elaborately detailed animated film and immersive installations. Our short films have premiered at Cannes and Venice Film Festivals, our installations have won awards at the Prix Ars Electronica, QAGOMA New Media Art Award and shown in major institutions across the globe.

See our work in depth at IsobelandVan.com or scroll down to see a few of our latest projects

Soft Stories

Soft Stories is a collaboration between textile artist Cat Rabbit and animator Isobel Knowles. We create installations, animations and picture books. Many of our artworks contain kinetic sculpture and we love mixing humble craft materials with animation and technology to create something both sophisticated and accessible. Check out all of our work on SoftStories.com.au or scroll down to see a few of our latest creations.

PARTICLE WAVE

Particle/Wave curated by Alicia Sometimes is an exploration of art and science showcased under the spectacular dome of the planetarium. Poets, musicians, sound and video artists – alongside renowned scientists – have collaborated to present a creative glimpse of the incredible story of gravitational waves.

I created two visualisations of poems written by Krissy Knean on the subject of gravitational waves titled A Long Slow Blink and In Tiny Circles with sound design by Camilla Hannan.

Particle/Wave screened at the Melbourne Planetarium for Melbourne Festival in 2018, at Scienceworks, World Science Festival Brisbane 2019, Jena Fulldome Festival, National Science Week 2019 and was at New Scientist Live in London, 2019.

Lying in wait for a grand reopening

One of the final exhibitions in Flinders Street Station’s underpass gallery was called Going Underground curated by Meg Rennie. I took inspiration from Melbourne’s long lost underground public spaces: The South Seas Cafe underneath the Manchester Unity building, Hosie’s Bathing Palace underneath Royal Arcade and the bowling alley underneath Flinders Street Station.

KEHAI

This work was a response to my time at the the Shiro Oni residency in Onishi, Japan. Installed into this disused shed, I created a work about the Japanese idea of Kehai - to sense someone's presence without seeing them.

 Other Artists

I often develop relationships with other artists who at some point in their practice want to add movement to their work. It’s enriching to be able to work with people to explore things outside their skillset and to widen the scope of their artistic communication.

Josh Muir

Daen Sansbury-Smith