Updates

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