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 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 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 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 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...