Jul 4, 2011
Meteor, Rock,  “Alex Cuffe’s seemingly low-fi art practice embraces an aesthetic that evokes the charming practical tinkering of a backyard inventor against finely honed conceptual premises. Sound, electrics and amplification become key activators of clunky and kind of romantic sculptures, often underpinned by a degree of irreverent humour and a solid grasp of techno-wizardry.  The kind of speculation that has previously led the artist to build ‘biospheres’ or permaculture units, magnifying the sounds of plants growing, or brewing beer according to medieval recipes or supposed differences in types of intoxication, is also alluded to in Rock, meteor.  Theses curious elements, with ‘science project’ rocks propped by hand carved sticks and a fluro comet, act as fallible stand-ins for astronomical and elemental phenomena.   After completing a Bachelor in Fine Arts at QCA Alex has recently completed two residencies, including a studio residency at NK in Berlin. He has held multiple solo and group shows, including a major solo project in 2010 titled Natural is the Static at Metro Arts. He was also included in the GAS 2010, along with Brisbane Emerging Art Festival, and Ryan Renshaw’s Test Patterns. His work was also in the Home Sweet Home video art festival in Berlin 2010. Cuffe is also a founding member of SPEC, an ARI which has hosted and participated in a multitude of events, most notably Gross Bodies of Light held in 2010 at MAAP. He is currently developing a mini festival titled New Primitive and a member of Sky Needle, a collaborative performance based sound art project with hand made instruments. Sky Needle recently played at the Melbourne Jazz festival’s Overground and headlined at Sydney’s Now Now festival’s opening night, both in 2011. In 2012 he will be featured in Melbourne’s prestigious Next Wave Festival.” Churchie Emerging Art Catalog

Meteor, Rock, 

“Alex Cuffe’s seemingly low-fi art practice embraces an aesthetic that evokes the charming practical tinkering of a backyard inventor against finely honed conceptual premises. Sound, electrics and amplification become key activators of clunky and kind of romantic sculptures, often underpinned by a degree of irreverent humour and a solid grasp of techno-wizardry. 

The kind of speculation that has previously led the artist to build ‘biospheres’ or permaculture units, magnifying the sounds of plants growing, or brewing beer according to medieval recipes or supposed differences in types of intoxication, is also alluded to in Rock, meteor.  Theses curious elements, with ‘science project’ rocks propped by hand carved sticks and a fluro comet, act as fallible stand-ins for astronomical and elemental phenomena.  

After completing a Bachelor in Fine Arts at QCA Alex has recently completed two residencies, including a studio residency at NK in Berlin. He has held multiple solo and group shows, including a major solo project in 2010 titled Natural is the Static at Metro Arts. He was also included in the GAS 2010, along with Brisbane Emerging Art Festival, and Ryan Renshaw’s Test Patterns. His work was also in the Home Sweet Home video art festival in Berlin 2010. Cuffe is also a founding member of SPEC, an ARI which has hosted and participated in a multitude of events, most notably Gross Bodies of Light held in 2010 at MAAP. He is currently developing a mini festival titled New Primitive and a member of Sky Needle, a collaborative performance based sound art project with hand made instruments. Sky Needle recently played at the Melbourne Jazz festival’s Overground and headlined at Sydney’s Now Now festival’s opening night, both in 2011. In 2012 he will be featured in Melbourne’s prestigious Next Wave Festival.” Churchie Emerging Art Catalog

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"... My sister Cath remarked there was more hair than musician as slender Alex Cuffe pulsed his crude homemade bass guitar in Sky Needle.." Andrew McLellan/Andrew's sister.

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