Structural Adjustment explores repetition, variation, chance, time and reconstruction within the everyday. It is a series of loops reaching towards each other through shape, colour and concept, growing tighter and forming circles.

A game of chance played within the constraints of a five year old anti poker-machine sticker, rematerialised with paint to be presented back to Tasmania’s poker machine licensee via an emerging art prize.

Three of a kind bananas, supporting their frames via webbing and oversize nails, drifting from the yellow of the original sticker towards that of the reproductions, growing tighter in radius before collapsing.

A painting of circles made with a puddle and bike, growing tighter before the marks evaporate.

A saw rebuilt with a drawing, rolled into a third dimension with a progressive radius, unable to cut.

The arms of a deconstructed armchair, held together, one inside the other, by their resistance to the tension of their upholstery webbing, forming loops.

The golden face of an Egyptian casket depicted on a National Geographic cover from 1983, rolled into a cone and held in shape by a splitter head.

A ladder and saw-horse supporting a totem-tennis game.

Reconstituted offcuts and audience participation.

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