Mr Allan Giddy

Mr Allan Giddy

Lecturer

1992     BA UNSW COFA

1993-4  Post graduate studies with Prof Jill Scott at Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar (D)

1994-5  Post graduate studies with Prof Roy Ascot at CiiA (Now Uni of Wales) (GB), funded by NSW Traveling Art Scholarship

2001     MFA  UNSW COFA      'Intersection' - an investigation into light, matter and time

Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
School of Art & Design

Director, Environmental Research Initiative for Art, School of Art
I have been described as a pioneer in, and one of Australia’s foremost proponents of, sustainable energy systems, electronic interconnectivity and interactivity embedded in the physical art object. I have worked with alternative energy systems in his sculpture and installation art for over twenty years.

My work has been shown at the Tate Modern UK, in Heidelberg and Rotterdam Town Halls, and numerous other venues internatio...

E-mail
a.giddy@unsw.edu.au
Location
G Block

1994NSW Traveling Art Scholarship (Now the Helen Lempriere)

1995 NSW Dyson Bequest

2002 Sculpture by the Sea Green Power prize

2013 Runner up Australian event awards Best New Event / Best Achievement in Sustainability (with Warringah Council for La Lune Energy Producing Art)

2015 Highly commended NSW Events Awards (with Randwick Council for NOX night art)

I currently lead ERIA (the Environmental Research Initiative for Art), UNSW A&D, specialising in the use of electrically motivated technologies and off grid power in public artwork. I have lead a team which has acquitted a major Australian Research Council linkage grant (2009-2013), secured by ERIA to advance the field.

Presently I am working on transportable solar and wind powered media systems to place sound in remote waterways in numerous sties in Australia and New Zealand. Funded by grants secured from Creative New Zealand, Create New South Wales and The Australian Council for the Arts.

My work and research involve a great deal of interdisciplinary collaboration. I work closely with colleagues in UNSW’s Key Centre for Photovoltaic Research and Chemical Engineering Department, as well as with companies and municipal bodies such as BP Solar, Pepperl + Fuchs, Sydney Olympic Park Authority, City of Sydney, Randwick City Council, Warringah Council and the Broken Hill Art Exchange . This cross pollination is vital to my practice. 

I am the international research fellow (new energy systems) at Intercreate Aotearoa (NZ)

I have acted as an advisor for Waverly council Arts committee

Profiled UNSW solar research in 2 solar powered public art exhibitions (2000/2002)

Founded the Desert Equinox (solar art in the desert) ongoing events in Broken Hill

Conceived and directed La Lune - Energy Producing Art on the North Shore of Sydney

Founded the NOX Night Art ongoing bi-annual exhibitions by UNSW students in Randwick city's Eco Park

I am a Founding advisor on Eden Unearthed ongoing sculpture exhibitions

I continue to advise Randwick Council/Eden Unearthed/Broken Hill Art Exchange and events organisers nationally

 

My Research Supervision

Mark Booth MFA candidate

Research Question

Can the mutability and visible representation of sculptural form in space be determined by the manipulation and/or combination of a pre-selected set of elements intrinsic to a specific environment

 

Co

Eric Lobbecke  MFA candidate

Research Question

Can a trained hand and mind be a disruptive force within political cartooning and fine art?