Five Faces of Adam Finalist Portia Geach Memorial Prize. In private collection. My aim in this portrait was to capture the face with its multiplicity of emotion in its ‘uncomposed’ state. I wanted to show that our faces are made up of many experiences and pasts, moods...
Thoughts immured Finalist Portia Geach Memorial Prize. Exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra online collection. In private collection. At the time I did this portrait, John Maclean was a professional wheelchair athlete. He has a deep emotional...
Selbstbildnis mit jugendlicheucalyptus Finalist Portia Geach Memorial Prize. In private collection. This painting is based on a Self-portrait by Egon Schiele, one of his most bewitching portraits. I am intrigued by Schiele’s use of colour, the wiped-out method of...
Miserable Men My subjects for these portraits were in one way or another exhausted, desperate or grieving. I wanted to counter the idea that men are robust, resilient and tough and present them at their most...
Lost Children I was thinking about the lost lives of children. Existences that went unnoticed by history, grieved over only by mothers and fathers. These black and white faces were inspired by Lewis Hine – a social realist American photographer working in the early...
