Troy Christmass’s practice encompasses painting, collage, printmaking, sculpture and installation. Recently his work has centred around the gathering, disassembly and reassembly of domestic and urban ephemera including blinds, timber and metal furniture, leftover paint and wood off cuts to surprising effect. His finished work is simplistic in form utilising the ‘bones’ of the disassembled gatherings to organically reinvent their usage, ever mindful of questioning the full potential of their design or material value.
Wooden off cuts may be reconfigured to form the bark of the tree from whence they came, park bench legs are burnished and welded together in the shape of a shamrock and disused wire baskets faithfully support one another to form an arch.
Through this exploration and interrogation of materiality and form Troy animates once mundane objects, alerting us to the hidden potential that they embody and heightening our senses providing a different way of looking at things.
Installation View VCA Graduate Exhibition, 2011
Spiral # 5 ( Balance Project), 2011
Treated pine fence palings
22.5o, 2011
441 various length of pine cut on 22.5o angle standing on end, imported wooden tea chests, ply
Spinal, (balance project), 2011
Ikea pine bed slats, 3mm wire
Arc #2, (Balance project), 2011
Builders timber cut on 5o angle, 3mm wire
Charm, 2011
Found shopping bag handle, paper
Poetry and Chance, 2011
reinvigorated findings
dimensions variable
Silver Lining, 2011
Australian Hardwood
260x260x40mm
22.5 degree pyramid, 2011
441 pieces treated pine cut on 22.5 degree angle standing on end
900x900x350mm
Installation Room Project alternative arrangement (woodgrain study), 2011
Various Australian hardwoods cut across the grain, oil
dimensions variable
Installation Room Project (woodgrain study), 2011
Various Australian hardwoods, pine
site specific, various dimensions
It pays to buy good tea, good tea is better value, 2011
Imported wooden tea chests
Scaled down gallery version, VCA Studios
dimensions variable
It pays to buy good tea, good tea is better value, 2011
Imported wooden tea chests
Albert park
dimensions variable
dimensions variable
Balance project (59 leaning blinds, wall supported), 2011
hardwood ventetian blinds, no fixings
3100x1500x50mm
hardwood ventetian blinds, no fixings
3100x1500x50mm
Balance project ( venetian spiral), 2011
hardwood ventian blinds, glue, staples
1000x1000x500mm
hardwood ventian blinds, glue, staples
1000x1000x500mm
Raised log formation, 2011
pine wedges, glue, staples, steel, plaster
2100x200x900mm
pine wedges, glue, staples, steel, plaster
2100x200x900mm
Mask, 2011
welding helmets
400x250x300mm
Nothing to wear, 2011
tasmanian oak
300x580x250mm
Sunburst, 2011
plywood offcuts, acrylic
1200x1600x12mm
Visitors, 2011
outdoor umbrella frames, cider keg, glass lampshade, linseed oil
2000x700x700mm
1600x700x700mm
Bench (detail), 2011
welded steel
1400x1200x20mm
Wall supported arch, 2011
wire baskets
2500x320x250mm
Origin (in three parts), 2011
pine offcuts
200x300x3000mm
100x220x2900mm
30x30x1650mm
Hideout, 2010
tongue in groove laminated flooring
Dimensions variable ( site specific)
Ladders and Lights number 1, 2010
Wooden ladder, lightbox
Dimensions variable (site specific)
Self portrait with Bucket, 2010
Digital Inkjet Print
255x195mm
Primal thought, 2010
ink on mount board
290x300mm