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
Transitional Vistas
(Moving Image)
2021-2022
Absent Friends
Pigment ink-jet print
This image was awarded the Galloway Lawson Prize in 2013.
Still waters run deep
Nominee in the 7th Fine Art Photography Awards in 2021. For further details click here
This image was a nominee in the 7th Fine Art Photography Awards in 2021. It refers to a place that I often visited when I went for a walk in the evening during lockdown. It is a place where children swing out on an old fire hydrant hose across the river and jump into the water. However, there is also an eeriness about it and a young woman's body was found nearby. In this work, I explore perceptions of this place and how those perceptions might be transformed as well as the associated emotions, uncertainty and disorientation that might be associated with the place.
The Recovery
2017
C-type print on aluminium composite panel
This image was selected for inclusion in the Long List of the (international) Lumen Prize in 2017.
This image concerns the ill health and recovery of my mother. Using highly saturated colour and strong contrast, it explores the sense of alienation and disconnection that can be experienced with ill health. It investigates the daily struggle that can occur in isolated and constrained suburban spaces - often within view but disconnected from a transformed and alien external world.
On the Margins #1
2011
Dye sublimation, aluminium
55.5 X 76 cm.
This image is part of a series (of three) that was awarded The Tolarno Hotel VCA Annual Art award and the The Alliance Française Group Exhibition Award.
It concerns marginalisation and visibility in Australian suburbia.
Extension
2018
Dye sublimation, aluminium
Leonie’s house
2016
Dye Sublimation, Aluminium
110.5 x 78.5 cm.
For further information and images concurrently exhibited in The Suburban Dream at Tacit Contemporary Art, click here
The Garden Path
2018
Dye sublimation, aluminium
For further information and details about this work and others that were shown in the exhibition entitled ‘Transition and Place – An exploration in digital painting’ click Here
Recursive Wisteria
2018
Inkjet print on fabric that was then painted with silk ink, re-photographed and then resulting image printed as dye sublimation on aluminium
This method was used to explore change and transitions over time. The work also featured in the exhibition entitled ‘Transition and Place – An exploration in digital painting’ . For further details click here
Spaced Out
2017
1 x 2 meter dye sublimation, aluminium
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 #1
Into the Shadows #2
Into the Shadows #3
Looking Back’
2018
Moving Image
Exhibited in ‘Transition and Place - An exploration in digital painting’, Black Cat Gallery,Collingwood, Melbourne. See under selected past exhibitions tab above for details.