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