Toggles is an inter-dimensional multi-disciplinary Artist currently based in Melbourne, certified with a BFA in Sculpture and also Mechanical engineering (electronics/Robotics.) He uses a variety of digital fabrication techniques to produce complex interlocking structures which fit together like puzzles to make functional psychedelic playgrounds for all ages: Evolving mysterious, alien influenced worlds through techno-extrapolation - with a keen eye for detail and visual phenomena, using intense colour combinations and woodworking wizardry, while Striving for efficient material use and smart design.
Toggles' work has been featured at Festivals across Australia, including Rainbow Serpent, Esoteric, Wild horses, The World Beyond and many more!
Sorry this website is lacking updates, I have been wayyyy to busy fixing up our new 7 acre property, looking after our little girl and baby boy and making stuff in the new workshop to update this - hope to do an overhaul soon! ;P
Stay Tuned on Instagram @Toggles or facebook.com/togstoggles :D
Toggles' work has been featured at Festivals across Australia, including Rainbow Serpent, Esoteric, Wild horses, The World Beyond and many more!
Sorry this website is lacking updates, I have been wayyyy to busy fixing up our new 7 acre property, looking after our little girl and baby boy and making stuff in the new workshop to update this - hope to do an overhaul soon! ;P
Stay Tuned on Instagram @Toggles or facebook.com/togstoggles :D
Future Primative 2016
1200x1200mm
Working with essential elements distilled from our world; I create ambiguous landscapes of life from a macro to microscopic scale, making the impossible appear logical, while offering other-worldly possibilities and alternative solutions to our society's dilemmas.
I steer various computer aided manufacturing processes toward an organic nonlinear mode to translate the fluidity and uniqueness of mark making to physical form, Up-cycling where possible, striving to uncover inventive material uses and unconventional techniques.
For me the creative process is a journey - each element weaving in new ideas while subverting the paradigm; oscillating between conscious and subconscious process, evolving contexts and meanings as each new element is introduced, until finally arriving at a previously unimaginable place. Every artwork is a journey into the unknown - an evolving process of discovery!
I steer various computer aided manufacturing processes toward an organic nonlinear mode to translate the fluidity and uniqueness of mark making to physical form, Up-cycling where possible, striving to uncover inventive material uses and unconventional techniques.
For me the creative process is a journey - each element weaving in new ideas while subverting the paradigm; oscillating between conscious and subconscious process, evolving contexts and meanings as each new element is introduced, until finally arriving at a previously unimaginable place. Every artwork is a journey into the unknown - an evolving process of discovery!
Currently my works are a reflection of human impacts on the environment - The systematic viral-like destruction of the infinitely complex organic world of nature - chewed up bit by bit by the mechanical hands of humans to feed so called "progress".
Amazingly all life forms can exist in some sort of harmonic balance - Except us!
So where did we come from!?
Ironically I love technology, but believe we can use it in a more collaborative/sustainable way alongside the planet!
Expanding upon this thread I explore the egregious barrage of brainwashing/passive mind programming we see in advertising, which we are forced to scrutinize on a daily basis - this manifests in my work in an effort to grab attention in a world brimming with banal distractions, consumerist ideals and capitalist agendas. I abstract, intertwine and link elements in conjunction with ideas as a metaphor to the uncertainties, complexities and inter-dependencies of our "simple" lives.
In an infinite universe, everything IS.
Amazingly all life forms can exist in some sort of harmonic balance - Except us!
So where did we come from!?
Ironically I love technology, but believe we can use it in a more collaborative/sustainable way alongside the planet!
Expanding upon this thread I explore the egregious barrage of brainwashing/passive mind programming we see in advertising, which we are forced to scrutinize on a daily basis - this manifests in my work in an effort to grab attention in a world brimming with banal distractions, consumerist ideals and capitalist agendas. I abstract, intertwine and link elements in conjunction with ideas as a metaphor to the uncertainties, complexities and inter-dependencies of our "simple" lives.
In an infinite universe, everything IS.