Coltrane's Jive

 “Coltrane’s Jive” 

Kinetic Floor Sculpture 2012 Timber, steel, coal, rope, chain. 

200 x 140 x 200cm –work in progress 

Artist’s Statement: "Coltrane’s Jive" signifies power and violence, a single-minded machine, crude and unvarnished, offered up as the saviour of Australia’s failing economy. The work suspends thought on a J-curve trajectory: Australia the prisoner of a runaway privatised coal industry propped up by a ‘railroading government’. Locked within the rails of economic determinism, it is drawn toward the inevitable conclusion of exhaustion and impoverishment, leaving us empty handed for future generations. Coltrane’s Jive is an in-your-face predicament/dilemma: a collusion of technology and economics resulting in profits before sustainable energy solutions. The structural violence of no choice― the one way agenda― delivers injustice for all social classes. There is no happy-go-lucky take home message, just a stark reality ― one we must all come to face. As an environmental activist and artist my work is self-consciously orientated towards commentary upon the tragic and wholly preventable social and ecological crisis into which we are heading.

Installation "1,2,3." 1994  Marshal Arts Gallery , Memphis, TN

Interestingly this is a work that I did utilising the rubber from a tire shredding company next door to the gallery in Memphis. The coal and shredded tire used as a rich source of black is interesting as it is energy resource and an energy rich material. The numeral progression is an observation that this is the beginning of all things counted, even and odd and the rule of addition and subtraction, these are the numbers one needs..exception to zero!...from the first even number..
Similar too are the uses of rust as colour as with Coltrane's Jive. It is fun to extend the drawing surface on the floor as the tire shreds are easily laid down. Wondering about coal as the drawing medium.?

Memphis Sculptor

Greely Myatt my hero

Karl the Joker

This is the feather for my mate karl who always used to make fun of me in high school and teased me saying nothing blows free-er than the Windz...used to really piss me off, but then i never really let him see that....well maybe he did see that it made me mad..prick. that's what a good mate does, here ya go Karl this one is for you...a big laughing joker for you......

Ape over France

Stayed in a tent in France and painted portraits and this one was a first step to understanding how to look at the page as full and complete not just a photo of a face.

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sand sculptures/

Show coming up on November 3rd

 I think the creative energy that comes for me is more sporadic than systematic, and they both compliment each other, the stage of inspiration turns into a system, even though some may say this system looks like chaos.....this is where explaining gets a bit tough, I look around to try and understand what I have at my disposal and use things at hand.  I often question what the meaning of necesity and luxury is.  How to make something simple or complex by fashioning the parts, depending on the additive or subtractive method, challenges meaning and function.  There is a bit more to it than putting stuff together, it begins with an idea, and then letting go of some of the force and let the "naturals" take precedence, Control is optional....If that may look like chaos...well it is .....

"Flight of a Course"  200cm X 120cm X 80cm     wood & steel     2011

"Flight of a Course"  is a work that speaks about flight through the use of metephor with both feather and spoon form.  Inspiration comes from growing up in St.Louis and later in North Carolina. The airplane has impressed upon me at an early age.  Charles Lindbergh in St. Louis with his solo flight across the atlantic, and the Wright Brothers from the beginning with their epic suspension, are examples of fearlessness that future leaders of tommorrow seek.  As a sculptor the intuitive sense of balance is a tool of discovery as well as a practical element of constructing.  Assymetry is a subtle reminder of imperfection and the human condition and is evident in the distribution of weight leaning toward the spoon.

 Innovation and exploration are characteristics of all artists and must be supported through teaching students how to challenge outcome based learning, and favor inquiry based learning which inherently involves risk taking in education.  Without the challenge for failure, our future remains wrapped in cotton wool.  

Greg Windsor, BFA, MFA, Sculpture

Artist - Educator- Activist

ABC Open Project Video via Vimeo

One might wonder what the ,,,,,is it supposed to be?  What could it be?  or just Let it Be!  Interesting the asymmetrical balance that causes it to be slightly heavier and move to a point then swing back and of course the Pendulum comes to mind, likeness to a metronome? all these things are questions even the creator ponders. why did I choose to do this? what can I understand about this work?  This is a fine work and proud to wonder what the bloody hell it is?

The work called "Flight of a Course" as it was in the studio working out the details before showing in the Noosa Regional Gallery, the work is meant to be touched as with most kinetic sculpture it must move and the impetuous is the human connection and action.

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The catapult is a functioning kinetic sculpture that uses a spoon shaped mallet which when released projects an object.  The catapult is among the first demonstrations of trajectory from which Newton and other mathematicians could calculate the distance and velocity an object will travel. It also became known as the first military hardware used in combat. 


Funnily enough this is to me a study of the use of kinetic sculpture as a way of storing energy for the hurling of humour at a government unwilling to do the right thing. 


Why can't we get smart and stop the burning of carbon? Where is the commitment to funding truly clean energy solutions? 
It is absolute stupidity for us to keep doing what we know is the wrong thing to do.  We teach our kids one thing and do the opposite.
Time to fight for what is right and start our own revolution.