This is a selection of images and summations of my projects dating 2001 - 2026. This is an evolving archive.
Taking Stock: A Transcendental Tiny Restaurant Experience (2024)
A broth-powered sauna experience created in collaboration with video and sound artist James Paul for Next Wave Festival’s 40th Birthday Celebration. Participants were guided through a multi-sensory meditation while sipping on an umami broth in this custom-built installation.
Powered through conventional kitchen equipment, induction stovetops heated large pots of simmering broth specially prepared for the event.
Rest, rejuvenate and contemplate the horror of existence as Narrm slips into the depths of winter. Engage your senses in this sonic, visual and visceral experience like no other.
“Although cultures in all corners of the world have imported and adapted the sauna, many of the traditional customs have not survived the journey”. – Wikipedia, s.v “Sauna” (accessed 11 April, 2024)
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The Hobart Urban Illumination Project (2011)
Curated by David Cross and Sarah Jones as part of Iteration Again a series of public art commissions by twenty-two Australian and international artists that took place across Tasmania. Over a period of four weeks over winter, Bethany drove a modified Toyota Landcruiser through suburban Hobart, bathing houses in light and sound in an effort to help mitigate Seasonal Affective Disorder caused by the shadow of kunanyi/Mount Wellington.
Throughout the season Bethany would cook a high Vitamin D breakfast-in-bed for those who requested.
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/319/oa_edited_volume/chapter/2651932
Louis Vuitton Potato Cakes (2010)
Bethany cooked and handed out free potato cakes outside Louis Vuitton Collins Street wrapped in grease soaked Louis Vuitton branded paper bags.
Bring A Stranger Dinner Parties (2010)
A series of dinner parties where participants were invited to dinner under the directive to find a stranger to accompany them on their way to the event.
MX CLASSICS (2010)
Bethany retrofitted a discarded MX newspaper (a free newspaper people read on their afternoon train commutes) box with classic novels and handed them out during rush hour.
Graffiti for the Blind (2010)
Beasts of Prey and other Deadly Creatures (2006).
First Draft Gallery, Sydney
Also featured in Unrealesque (2007) curated by Andrew Frost. Grant Pirrie Gallery, Sydney
The Pretty Unicorn Series (2006)
Octapod Gallery, Newcastle
Bethany (Plaque) (2004)
Art Steps Beyond the Gallery a Newcastle City Council commission, Newcastle
