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Paul Irving is an Australian based visual/sound artist who creates sculptures, furniture, and sound installations. Paul devises performances and collaborative projects for festivals, and builds props for Australian and international theater, film and TV.

Paul has been involved in site specific installation and public art projects on a collaborative and solo basis since 1992. He has been involved in public art projects with Melbourne Fringe Festival, Big West, Earthcore, Maroondah festival and Moomba River Spectacular. His work has exhibited in numerous locations including curated group shows at the Museum of Modern Art Heide and McClelland galleries.

Paul’s past collaborative live sound art projects Insect-a-sonic Terror All Stars, and his vehicle based sound sculpture/performance are telling examples of his willingness to fuse his sculpture work with a sonic experimentalism , all coming together as anarchic/ tribal/ post industrial art. Paul’s punk aesthetic, his background in mechanics and passion for glitch electronics, fuse to create an authentic and unique sound field. He is an textural percussionist and for Autonomous Black introduces his made and modified musical instruments. Pauls steel bells are modified LPG bottles cut to various lengths to achieve specific notes and tones. The organ used in Autonomous Black, found on the side of the road and then deconstructed and modified, now has a new life as a sonic sculptural object. The instruments are a juxtaposition of trash and beauty, through the transformation and metamorphosis of industrial and domestic waste.