Kipple

“Kipple is useless objects, like junk mail or match folders after you use the last match or gum wrappers or yesterday’s homeopape. When nobody’s around, kipple reproduces itself. For instance, if you go to bed leaving any kipple around your apartment, when you wake up the next morning there’s twice as much of it. It always gets more and more”

“No one can win against kipple,” he said, “except temporarily and maybe in one spot, like in my apartment I’ve sort of created a stasis between the pressure of kipple and nonkipple, for the time being. But eventually I’ll die or go away, and then the kipple will again take over. It’s a universal principle operating throughout the universe; the entire universe is moving toward a final state of total, absolute kippleization.”

Kipple is a yearlong collection of beach plastic from 19 visits to Congwong Beach, La Perouse, NSW. The aim of this work is to create a data set, from the hard plastics that were washed up along the beach’s littoral zone. The rubbish not only becomes an installation but also a data visualisation tool, that fuses both science and art, combining investigation, method and data.

Kipple is a reminder of how our oceans are changing due to the impact of plastic. In the case of kipple the more you try to remove it, the more you find, as you become attuned to its frequency.’’

Kipple is a work in progress and is due to be exhibited in February 2018 at Interlude Gallery, Glebe, NSW.

absolute kippleization (detail)
AD Space Gallery installation, collected beach plastic, glass jars, size variable, 2016/2017

absolute kippleization (detail)
AD Space Gallery installation, collected beach plastic, glass jars, size variable, 2016/2017

Congwong Beach Kipple: 16th March, 2016

Congwong Beach Kipple: 18th March, 2016


Congwong Beach Kipple: 14th April, 2016


Congwong Beach Kipple: 22nd April, 2016


Congwong Beach Kipple: 2nd May, 2016


Congwong Beach Kipple: 12th May, 2016


Congwong Beach Kipple: 30th May, 2016


Congwong Beach Kipple: 7th June, 2016


Congwong Beach Kipple: 20th June, 2016


Congwong Beach Kipple: 25th July, 2016

Congwong Beach Kipple: 6th August, 2016

Congwong Beach Kipple: 15th August, 2016

Congwong Beach Kipple: 31st August, 2016

Congwong Beach Kipple: 28th October, 2016

Congwong Beach Kipple: 28th November, 2016

Congwong Beach Kipple: 13th December, 2016

Congwong Beach Kipple: 31st January, 2017

Congwong Beach Kipple: 12th February, 2017

Congwong Beach Kipple: 2nd March, 2017