• Bio
    • Veiled Pleasures (2022)
    • Ideas of Home (2019)
    • Bruised Food: Art Action and Ecology in Asia - A Living Laboratory (2019)
    • Secret Interiors (2018)
    • Hyphenated (2018)
    • Where Here is Elsewhere (2016)
    • The Pleasures and Dilemmas of Inheritance (2016)
    • Shimmering Spaces II (2013)
    • Shimmering Spaces III (2013)
    • 2013 Castlemaine State Festival - Biennial Periscope (2013)
    • Here with You (2011)
    • Wall Works and Other Projects (2010)
    • Something in the Air (2010)
    • Secret Files from the Working Men's College (2010)
    • Plays and Wins: the time it takes (2009)
    • Possible Worlds (2007)
    • Little Thoughts Secret Pictures (2007)
    • Neutral Readings (2002)
    • Memory and Slowness (1998)
    • Masala Mix: Opening up the Anglo - Indian Tiffin (2019)
    • The Billboard Project (2018)
    • Holding Hands (2018)
    • The Ascension (2018)
    • A Golden Circle and Graphite Orb (2016 - 2018)
    • How much does your history weigh? ...(2016)
    • Letting things be what they are (2016)
    • Between Dreaming and Dying (2015)
    • Closeness and Distance (2015)
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    • Elsewhere (2013)
    • Reading from Both Side (2013)
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    • Rumour (2013)
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    • Somersault (2013)
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Rhett D'Costa

  • Bio
  • Exhibitions
    • Veiled Pleasures (2022)
    • Ideas of Home (2019)
    • Bruised Food: Art Action and Ecology in Asia - A Living Laboratory (2019)
    • Secret Interiors (2018)
    • Hyphenated (2018)
    • Where Here is Elsewhere (2016)
    • The Pleasures and Dilemmas of Inheritance (2016)
    • Shimmering Spaces II (2013)
    • Shimmering Spaces III (2013)
    • 2013 Castlemaine State Festival - Biennial Periscope (2013)
    • Here with You (2011)
    • Wall Works and Other Projects (2010)
    • Something in the Air (2010)
    • Secret Files from the Working Men's College (2010)
    • Plays and Wins: the time it takes (2009)
    • Possible Worlds (2007)
    • Little Thoughts Secret Pictures (2007)
    • Neutral Readings (2002)
    • Memory and Slowness (1998)
  • Projects
    • Masala Mix: Opening up the Anglo - Indian Tiffin (2019)
    • The Billboard Project (2018)
    • Holding Hands (2018)
    • The Ascension (2018)
    • A Golden Circle and Graphite Orb (2016 - 2018)
    • How much does your history weigh? ...(2016)
    • Letting things be what they are (2016)
    • Between Dreaming and Dying (2015)
    • Closeness and Distance (2015)
    • Bespoke (2013)
    • P.O.S.H. (2013)
    • Elsewhere (2013)
    • Reading from Both Side (2013)
    • A.E.I.O.U. (2013)
    • Rumour (2013)
    • Standard English (2013)
    • Somersault (2013)
    • Trade (2013)
    • Eat! My Son (2013)
    • Curtain (2012)
    • Brad (2010)
    • The Colonial Garden (2010)
    • Archipelago (2009-2010)
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    • 2021 - 2024 (shaped paintings)
    • 2020 - 2022
    • 2018 - 2019
    • 2010 - 2017
    • 2006 - 2009
    • 2000 - 2005
    • 1996 - 1999
    • 1991 - 1995
    • 1987 - 1990
    • 1985 - 1986
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  • PhD
    • Shimmering Spaces: Art and Anglo Indian Experiences
  • contact

Archipelago  (2009-2010) was  a studio experiment which was never resolved. It was conceived as an installation which consisted of series of perspex painted on both sides with acrylic emulsion with armatures constructed with wood to make the forms free standing. The forms were placed on a table top together with a series of spice mounds. This work led to the idea for Trade  (2013), where I used a series of spice mounds. The perspex forms are still in the studio awaiting some form of resolution.  Perhaps they can become a project for a public art project as large freestanding billboards

View fullsize   Archipelago  (Detail)  Perspex, wood, acrylic polymer, spices   Dimensions variable  2009-2010
View fullsize   Archipelago  (Detail)  Perspex, wood, acrylic polymer, spices   Dimensions variable  2009-2010
View fullsize   Archipelago  (Detail)  Perspex, wood, acrylic polymer, spices   Dimensions variable  2009-2010
View fullsize   Archipelago  (Detail)  Perspex, wood, acrylic polymer, spices   Dimensions variable  2009-2010
View fullsize   Archipelago  (Detail)  Perspex, wood, acrylic polymer, spices   Dimensions variable  2009-2010
View fullsize   Archipelago  (Detail)  Perspex, wood, acrylic polymer, spices   Dimensions variable  2009-2010
View fullsize   Archipelago  (Detail)  Perspex, wood, acrylic polymer, spices   Dimensions variable  2009-2010
View fullsize   Archipelago  (Detail)  Perspex, wood, acrylic polymer, spices   Dimensions variable  2009-2010
View fullsize   Archipelago  (Detail)  Perspex, wood, acrylic polymer, spices   Dimensions variable  2009-2010
View fullsize   Archipelago  (Detail)  Perspex, wood, acrylic polymer, spices   Dimensions variable  2009-2010

Fig 1 -10 Archipelago, Perspex, wood, acrylic polymer, spices, dimensions variable, 2009-2010

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