Geoffrey Drake-Brockman (artist)

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"Totem" (2012), located outside Perth Arena

Geoffrey Drake-Brockman (born 1964) is an Australian artist known for incorporating robotics and lasers into his work. [1] [2] [3] [4] He was born in Woomera, South Australia. [3] He currently lives and works in Perth, Western Australia.

Notable works include "Floribots", (128 computer-controlled robot origami flowers arranged in a grid [5] [6] a sculpture that won the Macquarie Bank People's Choice Award when exhibited at the National Gallery of Australia) [7] [8] ) and "Totem", (a 10.5 metre tall installation outside Perth Arena that has moving panels that open and close like flower petals when people walk past. [9] [1] )

In March 2013 he took to Indiegogo to raise funds to complete four life size Robot Ballerinas, otherwise known as the "Coppelia Project". [10] [11] [12]

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  10. "The Coppelia Project - Four Dancing Robot Ballerinas".
  11. "Robot ballerinas". Archived from the original on 20 May 2013. Retrieved 10 March 2013.
  12. "Like a mad scientist, artist Geoffrey Drake-Brockman has been crazily busy at work in his Nedlands laboratory, or rather, his studio". Western Suburbs Weekly. 7 May 2013. p. 25.