Flying over Ice

Flying over Ice

Flying over Ice Solo exhibition, Gallery 41, Wooloomooloo Once upon a time, I flew in a small plane over the northern reaches of Minnesota in winter. I had never seen a frozen river, nor expected to see so many lakes— also frozen—appearing from above as small white...
Threshold

Threshold

Threshold Solo exhibition, Sheffer Gallery, Chippendale This series is inspired by the painting Invasion 1 by Aboriginal artist, Gordon Syron. The painting depicts the arrival of the British to Australia from an Aboriginal perspective. For me it’s a prescient piece; I...
Faces from within

Faces from within

Faces from within In trying to create a portrait which documents more than one interpretation of a sitter, I’ve been thinking about ways of recording the accumulation of a person and their complexity to a single portrait. In these works I’ve isolated each drawing...
Midnight Paintings

Midnight Paintings

Midnight paintings Sometimes when the moon is full I like to lie awake in bed and watch the silver light and try to memorise the image in my head. The next day I paint that...
Insignificance

Insignificance

Insignificance Over the last year or so, I’ve been pondering on the ideas behind Wabi-sabi, the Japanese Buddhist concept of existence involving impermanence, suffering and emptiness. This has led to a new body of work called Insignificance that explores the transient...