all artwork
holding infinity was installed in a forest setting at Sculpture in the Vineyards: Wollombi Sculpture Festival.
These works are a response to a moment in time in the cycle of life in a wild place, they use only what I find where I am.
Sometimes find myself making works where nature-made elements interact with human-made sites and materials…
Nature has capacity for infinity — we do not. Our short-termism eats infinity. Can we hold our shared relationship to infinity?
surrounding a 300 year old tree this work invites us to shed tears and acknowledge that the earth too is shedding tears.
A carpet of bandaged sticks is suspended above the ground — the tears of the earth held for a moment before becoming compost.
Installed in Berry Park inversion included a round mirror that allowed you to only see other people near by and the environment.
collecting tears calls on each of us to acknowledge the losses of our world, to allow our tears to fall. Image by Jessica Millman
veiling: grief and delight is a shared exhalation that creates space for the more beautiful world to emerge.
An interaction of photosynthesis and the phases that we share our lives with. Image by Dave Macquart
Exploring the art of not-doing in an always-on world. I carried a chair everywhere I went to sit, to ‘not do’, to sense into the world around me.
ghost trees was a ‘growing’ public engagement sculpture built over 4 weeks in memory of all that is lost out of lack of care.
How do we ‘know’ something as complex as the earth, as complex as nature?
This exhibition included 2 of my small sculptures: the coming to know my patch of the earth… and falling through.
post tension(ing): a monument to yesterday’s comfort was installed in Wollombi village as part of Sculpture in the Vineyards.
grief and ephemerality coexist, one teaches about the other — that we must proceed and we must remain proactive in the face of loss
This work used of 20 chairs destined for landfill as part of the Shoalhaven Council reIMAGINE Sculpture Project.
An exhibition of four sculptors making jewelry — I made six works.
three percent 3% was installed as part of the Sea of Waste at Shoalhaven Regional Gallery to coincide with Earth Day 2017.
Over this two week residency I made many small and not-so-small ephemeral artworks from whatever materials presented themselves.
describing one of the few straight lines governed by natural forces – a line pulled between the 2 magnetic poles of our planet.
Coming in and out of focus, the forms and their reflections plummet into the depth of the lake, clear or clipped.
An underground exhibition of sticks and connections, exploring sticks as precious material.
A zig-zagging/push-pull structure creates an elastic web, if any element breaks the structure begins to falls apart…
Sitting lightly in the landscape, this work explore space and by its transparency, the intricacies of space become visible.
A living forest is a network of connections in all directions, subtle happenings within the cells of a tree or deep within the soil…
inclusion questions the idea of inside and out – what is included and what is not?
A solo exhibition of small and mid sized sculptural works and installations, exploring the impact on rain or lack of it on our world.
Sometimes when a tree falls in a forest it is caught and held by others to become the most sculptural of trees.
hollow earth is a homage to the earth – to that which lies below, to that which we so often overlook.
rain stories acknowledges the reality that all water we interact with comes to us in the form of rain.
What is included and what is outside? Where does our connection with inside or outside begin or end?
This boulder-like yet transparent form, an irregular trapezoidal prism, hovers in space questioning the idea of perceived permanence.
11 dimensional object was created as a sculptural centre piece for a table at a NGV, Women’s Association fundraising event.
Windings of cable span open space to create curved transparent surfaces over which winds may cross to create sound.
3% might seem a small amount, but it is the per annum economic growth our governments encourage, to maintain our lifestyle…
inversion responded to the light and architecture of this grand galley space, its transparency holding the light.
An exploration of the repeated elements that make up the world, our lives and now, our digital world.
Two transparent funnels connect, one rounded edged turned down towards the earth, the other square edged facing upward to the sky.
A transparent form that contains reminders of a rectangular prism that is unable to remain still, or convincing of its form.
A series of pink black and white paintings… these works are about vulnerability and change, mortality and fragility…
Sculpture on the Edge is held on Endeavour Headland in Bermagui on the South Coast of NSW.
…is time in fact linear? does it stack neatly one moment upon another? or does it really weave its way randomly…
I made this work to explore how incremental increases can make huge impacts on long term outcomes; 3% seems such a small amount…
I was part of the 37th annual TAFE teachers exhibition held in the main gallery at Wollongong City Gallery.
This white threading of cellular memory speaks of its location by the sea while holding the memory of a place far from here.
When multiple contacts are made and connections maintained, spaces of possibility are created.
While waves tumble and waste onto the nearby shore this work threatens to tumble towards the sea.
Installed on the beach vortex a seems to be listening to the sea… humming the long distance song of the universe
How does the world hold together? Scientists and this exhibition, discuss the idea it is made up of strings.
cellular memory is a discussion about how we form memories – it is an after image of a previous work in this location.
Created by the way it catches itself to the existing architecture of the building and catches onto the “burrs” created along the central tube.
An analogy for our earth, her surface strong yet fragile and like knitting begins to fray if even single stitch is broken.
vortex acts like a funnel to another frame of mind, a new dimension of time and space – posing a question of perspective and courage.
Are grids embedded in the fabric of the universe or are they a human invention?
Vulnerability is something to embrace — it is our connection to everything.
This work speaks of my connection to land… as my feet growing roots into the earth I am connected to everything…
This 14.4 metre long mural tracks a timeline that tells the story of the Illawarra region from prehistory to now.
What visits us at night?
Image by Alex Wisser
The banners were designed to acknowledge our relationship to the land and place; to seek to restore a sense of custodianship for land and place.
SLICE was an exhibition in evolution — work came into being over the course of the exhibition.
Random Order comments on how nature expresses itself in patterns, patterns that repeat but are never quite exactly the same each time…
echo was awarded a commendation. It explores timelessness, vulnerability, mortality…
The work in this show is inspired by the place where Alena and I live – the Illawarra.
This is a sample of a series of ‘landstract’ paintings made after a trip to Antarctica in 2008.
This gallery features a series of pink, black and white paintings that I made over the years 2008 — 2012
Always stay close to being lost.