Wattle 2024
Wattle
As winter drags, I find solace in the wattle trees that line the Merri Creek. Their golden blossoms like small bursts of sunlight signal the end of the cold and the promise of spring. Each bloom becoming a metaphor for hope and reminders that even in the bleakest times, beauty exists, and change is inevitable.
Truth 2023
This work represents the climate for truth telling and welcomed change.
Everyday 2022-2023
Joy in the everyday, rain or shine I immerse myself in nature
Land Water Air 2021
Land, Water, Air
I walk the Merri Creek and am stirred by its landscape and surrounds. I observe the seasons reflected in nature and contemplate as the dappled light filters through the trees.
Recycled blind slats are a perfect surface for my hand printed lithographs of images reflecting land, water and air. Torn lithographs are collaged on to cedar wood slats then spaced apart to represent the air in between the trees and water ‘s filtered light.
domestic /dəˈmɛstɪk/ 2021
Embracing the visual stimuli of inanimate objects. These still life prints play with domestic objects present within the home during the Victorian 2021 pandemic lockdown.
COVID Gallery 2020
COVID Calendar – September 2020
30 days hath September and in my solitude I mark the days on my COVID calendar, making a daily addition by collaging onto a lithograph COVID background. With each day, a new image accompanies a different emotion, 30 in total they reflect my daily feelings. Some days I am filled with trepidation about the pandemic and on other occasions I embrace the solace and solitude for forced contemplation and personal growth. I celebrate Tuesday the first of September 2020, Winter is behind me and reduced pandemic restrictions allow me to embrace the optimism of Spring and the anticipation of feeling connected again.
Mesa 2019
MESA series
‘To roam unfettered over the vast expanses of the great South West with only the natural barriers of the river gorge and mountain range to limit wanderings.’
1868 Land Treaty United States and Navajo People, New Mexico.
Inspired by a visit to the USA’s South West my Mesa series pays homage to the enduring and definitive images of the American West. Monument Valley’s majestic mesas, Navajo Native American jewellery, petroglyphs, and the area’s seasonal colours have influenced my hand drawn and printed, limited edition lithographs and collages.
Renovate Now 2019
Advertising pseudo happiness: our increased obsession with the material, our possessions and our house. With the constant bombardment of advertising and reality home shows we have an illusion of freedom to choose when in fact the abundance of choice can infringe liberty.
This images responds to the Brunswick Noel Counihan Commemorative Art Award theme of Language and Liberty.
Home Affairs 2017
Department of HOME AFFAIRS 2017
This Series acknowledges Australia’s eligible skills occupations for migration.
