about

Making art is a means to explore my relationship to where and how I exist, it is a synonym for exploration. The act of making art has the power to transport me to places previously unknown. It connects me to the beginning of the universe.

3-dimensions

My sculptural exploration is one which attempts to achieve a sense of knowing of the base principles of my relationship with the earth.

It is an exploration of how physical objects occupy space, and exist in space. As animals we move around in space, it provides our means of existence. As humans we create and build spaces to live in and to imagine in.

How much can the act of building physical objects be stripped to base principles?

I explore elemental joining systems, to expose base principles; stacking, wrapping, weaving, leaning, natural tensions... all acknowledging the elemental physical principle of our being - gravity.

The creating of spaces experienced and imagined, macro and micro, how one shape or group of shapes or idea can embed so many meanings.

The materials I use encompass both the natural world and the products of industry, with a vision to use them in a harmony that are lessons for a wider world.

2-dimensions

For me painting and drawing are a means to explore the perception of viewing; that captured moment of breathless 'rightness'... just as a journey into the bush will always be wonderful, there will be moments where your field of vision, be if far or near, will be a frame of magical relationships that is so "right" and a shift of that frame to the right or left will dilute the magic.

My recent painted works explore space and interactions using broad chalky, crusty areas gathered and constrained by rivers of black, it is the spaces between, an undefinable time or space that hovers.

For me painting and drawing is an exploration of a world of ambiguity and possibilities.

my surroundings

I am based in Wollongong a city of the Illawarra region of NSW, located south of Sydney, Australia. Wollongong is close to national parks and wilderness areas and I make every opportunity to visit these places, as well as making longer trips to more remote areas in the Australian bush and outback.

 

the environment

My work is rooted in a passion and wonderment of this planet, most especially its still-wild places. Making visits to wild places restores my being, reminding me that our planet provides us with everything, and despite its abundance it is finite.