The Laneway Fence and other images
These images are everyday subjects in my suburban neighbourhood - such as a laneway fence - that are printed on Japanese handmade Sekishu Torinoko gampi paper over gold leaf. The resulting effect is highly textured, painterly and dimensional and the sheerness of the paper allows the gold leaf to become partially visible. Together, these features help to underscore the intrinsic value and beauty of the everyday as well as our relationship with it.
Latent Landscape Series
The images in this series concern visibility in place (of urban, marginalised groups) and how place is not a fixed or static entity. One of these images - Latent Landscape #3 - was shortlisted as a Finalist for the 2022 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize.
Latent Landscape #3
from the series Latent landscapes
pigment ink-jet print on canvas
117.5 x 84.0 cm
Transition Series
The six images in this series explore how memory and experience of place can be transformed by our emotional state and how this interplay between person and place can be in a constant state of flux. Landscape photography, of a place that I visited in East Gippsland in 2021, was used as the canvas and basis for exploring these dynamics. The first trilogy of images, shown below, was exhibited at Black Cat Gallery in Fitzroy, Melbourne in 2022 (For further details of this exhibition click here). (Pigment inkjet-prints on canvas.)
Solitary Vision Series
This series of five images explores the transformation of place and suburban alienation. These works were exhibited at the Ballarat International Foto Biennale 2021 Open Program. They were also exhibited at Black Cat Gallery in Fitzroy, Melbourne in 2022. (Size of each image: 100 x 150cm. Pigment inkjet-prints on canvas.)
Other Selected Works
Shadows of Time Series
This series of three images was part of an exhibition called ‘Shadows of Time’ that was held at Black Cat Gallery in Oct.-Nov. 2020 as Melbourne emerged from a severe lockdown. For further details click here. (All works are pigment inkjet-prints on canvas.)
Into the Shadows #3