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    Salon des Refusés . S. H. Ervin Gallery

    I’m giving an Artist Talk at S H Ervin Gallery on Sunday 21 July 2024, 3pm.

    You can see my latest work, a portrait of actor Sarah (Greenwood), at the 2024 Salon des Refusés Exhibition in Sydney until 25 August 2-24. The exhibition will then travel to The David Roche Foundation, Adelaide.

    Sarah, 2024, oil on linen, 183 x 137cm

    Rick Amor Drawing Award . McClelland Gallery

    So happy to have had a drawing selected for the 2024 Rick Amor Drawing Award.

    The drawing titled The Cleansing of the Temple, was inspired by the arrangement of the Scratch education studio space that day. Especially the student work on the wall, that was a study of an El Greco painting Christ Cleansing the Temple. In this drawing the term temple is used as a metaphor for the body and the original concept of moral cleansing is juxtaposed with a contemporary take on modern woman – women that have a very different perspective and power-position when it comes to nudity, as to who has agency over their bodies.
    The award is named after Frankston-born artist Rick Amor, who helped establish the exhibition. He said, “a room full of drawings is a wonderful thing to behold”.
    “This prize gives people one more reason to keep drawing on paper – the most direct and intimate expression of an artist’s sensibility,”
    (Rick Amor)

    Runs 30 March – 21 July 2024

    The cleansihng of the Tempole graphite on paper.

    Journey Through Lands . Scratch Art Space Gallery

    I’m exhibiting a range of landscape paintings & drawings for this show in Sydney. There is a selection of large and small paintings from a number of landscape series of works including Forecast, and my more recent Lake Mungo works Past and Present Future. All works are for sale.

    Opens Saturday 15 April, 3 – 5pm
    Runs 13 – 30 April 2023

    40 x 40 Project . Wagner Contemporary

    I was invited by Nadine Wagner from Wagner Contemporary Gallery to participate in their annual 40 x 40 Project.

    Opens on Saturday 26 November, 4 – 6pm
    Runs 26 November – 16 December 2022

    Doug Moran National Portrait Prize

    A portrait I made of an actress Stephanie Di Giacomo was selected as a semi-finalist in this year’s Doug Moran National Portrait Prize. She didn’t make it into the finals and was subsequently purchased by an art dealer in Los Angeles.

    Fisher’s Ghost Art Award
    29 Oct – 9 Dec 2022

    You can see Cir.ce is in the Contemporary Section of the Fisher’s Ghost Art Award until the 9 December 2022.

    5 August 2022

    I’m exhibiting large scale works for Domestic Mayhem, along with Chris Dolman at Scratch to coincide with the Inner West Creative Trails Event. Chris is also a Sydney-based artist and I love his work.  The exhibition runs 13 – 21 August and the Creative Trails Event is the weekend of 13 & 14 August 2022.  Full details of the exhibition and event can be found here.

    25 October 2021

    I have two works selected for the 2021 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award. Per.seph.o.ne was accepted in the Open Category and Ai.dos will be hung in the Traditional Category.  I’m especially looking forward to seeing the large scale work Per.seph.o.ne hung in a museum-grade gallery with lots of space abover her. The show runs 30 October – 10 December.

    1 August 2021

    I’m working on postcards during the Covid lockdown.  During a flood at  my studio in February 2019 it was the suitcase full of letters that I most wanted to save.  I travelled for years before the internet and writing was the most common way to keep in contact with family and friends. Writing is such a personal medium.

    Later drying them out I reconnected to my experiences with this organic life record. It inspired me to make postcards to send to friends, family, loved ones, and anyone open to connection. It still get excited sending and receiving personal letters in the mail even if it’s only a few sentences on a postcard.

    They are available for sale here.

    29 July 2021

    It’s lockdown in Sydney so I’ve closed down all the classes and exhibitions at Scratch for now. In the meantime I’m in the studio painting and going through old paintings that were left behind when I was busy setting up Scratch. I’m going through them now and finishing them off.  Ai.dos is the first work to resolve. It took longer to paint this small 55 x 55cm painting then any of the larger works. The time spent on intricate tonal relationships was very time-consuming and took up a lot of my head space.

    Ai.dos, 2021, oil on canvas, 55 x 55cm