
BORN
1960 Brisbane, Australia
STUDIES
2022
Master of Fine Art (Drawing), National Art School
Bachelor of Fine Art
EXHIBITION STATEMENT
Time and space play with my mind.
How does an artist make such immensities into a visual and tactile object?
In my work, micro-worlds of cellular proportions float with cosmic imagery. A viewer is left to decide which is which. The ambiguous scale of the work speaks to deep time interconnection between immensity and the microscopic.
Over time so deep it is beyond comprehension, the first generation of exploding stars gave rise to primary elements, which gave rise to planetary bodies. Minerals on Earth gave rise to life. Astoundingly, though obviously, all matter has imagery in common because all existence is basically the same stuff. My art interprets such interconnection.
Most of the works were made at the residency I was incredibly fortunate to be awarded by The Foundations, Portland. I lived and worked in an old cottage, The Squatter’s Residence, and had free reign of the huge site that was once the cement works that built Sydney. The quarries are now lakes of crystal water, and the old industrial buildings are slowly being reworked into a cultural and community hub.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Very big looks very much the same as very small.
The milky haze of Venus is not so different from the hazy microbes in milk. This is because all matter comes from one source and force. My work explores such interconnectedness, suggesting the affinity between life and non-life. Using Earth’s evolution as foundation, I aim at cosmic, geologic and biologic ambiguity.
In my practice, materials and processes are elemental. Every day I eat breakfast while surrounded by the universe and so I use eggshell and tea in my work to speak of that mundane experience on the brink of eternity, and to provide artistic limits to a limitless subject. Plaster, cotton and rice-paper are other material voices that help me whisper a story of deep time planetary evolution.
Art can offer, I believe, a form of time travel. Ideally I would like my work to provide, at a glimpse, aesthetic satisfaction, and with lingering contemplation, a conceptual journey into beyond-human time and space.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 – April – M Contemporary Solo Show
2022 – Contemporary Gallery – rise – first solo show
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 – February – Harvey Galleries/ NAS Group Show
2022 – National Art School Postgrad Show
2022 – Lithgow Art Trail
2022 – Sydney Contemporary Art Fair
2021 – 1+2 at the Drawing Gallery; MFA, National Art School
2020 – Contingency at Scratch Art Space; Decameron at Library Stairwell Gallery NAS
2019 – NAS BFA Grad Show; Exhibition for Lonely People NAS Library Stairwell Gallery
COMPETITIONS AND AWARDS
2016 – TAFE Queensland: First Prize, Ceramics
RESIDENCIES
2022 – The Foundations Portland, Art Residency