CV
Artist Statement
Karl Ockelford is a multi disciplinary artist who works individually and in collaboration across fields of film, sound, installation, photography and visual design. His work explores improvisation, abstraction and subterranean themes.
Karl’s collaborations include work with Decibel New Music Ensemble and individual members Stuart James and
Cat Hope on sound and visual projects, Rakini Devi with music production for dance pieces Best Dead and
Don’t Call Me Butoh, live performance and record releases with improvised experimental groups Abe Sada
& Sub Ordnance, remixes for labels Hidden Shoal and ENDE Records and has exhibited installation and
photographic works in a number of group exhibitions presented by the Perth Centre For Photography and Artrage.
Karl’s current creative practice involves sonic experimentation's through his solo music project Reluctant Carnivore,
personal studies of the interaction of sound/form through cymatics and investigations into new visual/sound
relationships through VR technologies.
Education
Murdoch University, Bachelor of Media, Sound and Film Studies, 2014
Engineering Trades Person-Mechanical, 2006
Sound, Installation & Video
"Urban Kali 4"- Rakini Devi
The Art Bar, MCA. Sydney, 2019
"Urban Kali 3"- Rakini Devi
Known/Unkown, The Lock Up, Newcastle, 2019
"Urban Kali 2"- Rakini Devi
The Festival of Death & Dying, Sydney 2018
"Instruction For Another Future"- Kate McMillan
Platter Process two- Reluctant Carnivore. XXIV. ROHKUNSTBAU, 2018
"Urban Kali"- Rakini Devi
Riverside Theatre, Sydney, 2017
"Urban Kali project development"
Rakini Devi with Sam James
Promotional video- Platter process album mix- Reluctant Carnivore, 2016/17
"Illuminated Transmission"
Graduate project, Murdoch University, 2014
"Untitled"- Crime Scene
Perth Centre for Photography, 2005
"Best Dead"- Rakini Devi
Tick, Blue Room, Perth, 2003
"Drive"
Peep in Death, Artrage, 2002
"Don’t Call Me Butoh"- Rakini Devi
Blue Room, Perth, 2002
Band/Collaborations/Experimental Sound
Reluctant Carnivore
2012-Current
Sub Ordnance
2006-Current
KFK
2002-Current
Abe Sada
2006-2014
Pahlemik
2006-2007
Discography
"Cult of Synthetic Order"
Reluctant Carnivore with guests-Sage Pbbbt & Guy Fleming
CDR & Cassette, Pleasantly Deceased, 2020
"Sounds For A Goddess/the music from Rakini Devis Urban Kali"
Karl Ockelford/Reluctant Carnivore
CDR & Digital, Pleasantly Deceased, 2018
"Platter Process"
Reluctant Carnivore
CDR & Digital, Pleasantly Deceased, 2018
"Under Boards"
Reluctant Carnivore
CDR & Digital, Pleasantly Deceased, 2018
"Lost & Found"
Purple Ernie
CDR & Digital, Pleasantly Deceased, 2018
"Kill for Kicks"
KFK
Digital, ENDE, 2016
"Greylands Deconstruction Manual"
Digital Compilation, Hidden Shoal, 2013
"Languid Sigh"
Cat Hope
Digital, Kunstradio Austria, 2013
"Organ Grinder"
Sub Ordnance
Vinyl 12”, HRP, 2011
"Redux"
Abe Sada
Vinyl 12”, HRP, 2011
"The Low Chord"
Abe Sada
CDR, Kabutsuri Tape International Japan, 2009
"Subzilla"
Abe Sada
CDR, Bloodstar, 2007
"Please Take Care When Disposing of Each Other"
Pahlemik
CDR, independent release, 2007
Film
civil-nautical-astronomical
Jenny Hector, Cat Hope & Gabriella Smart
Substation, VIC
creative development documentation, 2021
"MAS/MSTERY"
Cat Hope
Marche De Noel Electronique
Art Zoyd Studios, France
Video and Sound Production, 2020
"Two Minutes From Home"
2 Minute Online Composition Commissions
Decibel New Music Ensemble
Editor, 2020
"Visual Disorders/Cult of Synthetic Order"
Reluctant Carnivore
Production & direction. Music video, 2020
"The Murder Pier"
Rakini Devi
Production & direction. Promotional video, 2019
"Portrait of Female Alchemy"
Rakini Devi
Production & direction. Promotional video, 2019
"The Earth Defeats Me"-Lionel Marchetti & Cat Hope
Music Performed By Decibel
Production & direction. Music video, 2018
"For My Friends In Detention"- Directed by Zebedee Parkes
Editing & sound. Documentary, 2016
"n dimension"-Stuart James/Decibel,
Production & direction. Music video, 2015
"Making Music for Moments of Disappearance"
Editing & post production. Documentary, 2014
"Blood River"-The Devil Rides Out,
DOP. Music Video, 2013
"This is Brian"
Director. Documentary, 2013
Photography
Book Series
What We See in the Suburbs
Indolent Creations, 2019
Not So Far Flung Places
Indolent Creations, 2019
Flora + Fauna
Indolent Creations, 2019
Point Towards the Sky
Indolent Creations, 2019
Near Dark
Indolent Creations, 2019
Abstracts and Textures
Indolent Creations, 2019
Microcosm Series
Fiction group exhibition, Perth Centre for Photography, 2007
Nape
Erotic Art Prize, The Bakery, 2007
Junction
Visions of Vincent, Judges Commendation, 2007
Untitled Series
The Space Between, Foto Freo, 2007
Self Portrait
Nemesis Group exhibition, Perth Centre for Photography, 2005
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I would like to thank my family, friends, collaborators and artists that have given me support, encouragement and provided me with opportunities to be creative.
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