Lo-res Life, 2023

Relief assemblage foregrounds ecological interrelatedness or immanence and the “state of things” in our world. In their intimate scale material properties in potential relationship could become performative. The work portends unexpected intersections and readings emerging by accrual, perhaps a visual and tactile language just outside of coherence. At its core, is wonder at the resilience of the processes of liveliness and adaptation. One might also consider the small-scale dynamics in the works’ composition as having allusions to exponentially bigger contexts. In this way the small local elements and synergies at play offer a suggestion of the macro-ecologies and large-scale relations in a world at a significant point of political, social, and bio/ecological emergency

bit pass: an instant of you, 2023, inkjet photographic print from sculptural assemblage, 84.1cm x 118.9cm, (Edition of 6)

Heady Mix, 2023, inkjet photographic print from sculptural assemblage, 84.1cm x 84.1cm, (Edition of 6)

Buffer Series, 2022

All things/objects have embedded meanings and associations in conjunction with their material qualities. Shininess, colour, mass amplify those meanings and shape our interactions with them. Involving material qualities and turns of phrase, these works take ordinary things, images, and words into new associations through montage which is an ideal process for social parody. Composed of everyday objects; buffers or polishing pads that usually spin on surface veneers to make them shine, the works might suggest questions of personal power or power relations and the challenges of finding and inspired way to work collectively. Too often we may feel vacated, stripped bare or empty by systems and their processes that result in public prosaicism, cliché, personality veneer and disappearance. The work invites the possibility that we might reward creativity in difference such that they might also comprise part of a socially exceptional community.

Buffer Series, 2022, mixed media assemblage in the shape as a pocket

Mining the Dirt 2019-2021

The way of the shovel is the way down, deep down through enmassed material to the core of things.
We are soiled and of the dirt defending our limits and mining to try to be more.

Softening the Ground (fade out stunt), 2 ways, 2019, mixed media assemblage and pyrography text

Unspeakable Loss, 2021, b/w inkjet photographic print, 84.1cm x 118.9cm, (Edition of 6)

On Turning Back (Hazelwood) 2019, inkjet photographic print, 60cm x 50cm (Edition of 6)

the well, and the drawing, 2011, ink and graphite drawing with photo-collage in spice containers

the breach and the burden, 2007, mixed media assembalge

one unexpected instance, 2011, wood , wheel, drafting film gesso, stolmen,
preserving jars wire basket string, dimensions variable

light house work, 20012, balsa wood ink and gesso drawn images crochet wool, vitrine

score, 2001, false nails, garden matting and light with shade behind window

Colour as Animal: Vermillion, 2010, scourers, gesso and acrylic paint

Early Drawing/Painting