BRIGHTON JETTY SCULPTURE 2025
ELEGY
An elegy is often written as a quatrain with an alternating rhyme. The elegy describes the process towards decay.
GROVE 1
This series of works makes use of my flamboyant wrtiing style. Each form is hand cut from plywood and painted.
HEYSEN SCULPTURE AWARD 2025
GROVE 2
The theme for this prestigious award referred to the preservation of nature in keeping with the life-long beliefs of artist Hans Heysen who lived and worked a century ago. I chose to interpret this idea as ‘nature will always find a way’, to quote Jurassic Park. Given that the same materials and atoms that constitute trees, humanity and the stars exist everywhere, my tree-like forms have adapted using plastic and stainless steel.
SALA OPEN STUDIO August 2024
PALMER INTERNATIONAL 2024
The sculpture ORION is aligned EW. In March in Australia the constellation of Orion is visible at 52 degrees NW before the earth turns over and the constellation is visible only in the northern hemispehere. Configurations of stars were traditionally used to navigate but so many ancient monuments to the stars are aligned to predict the equinoxes. 25 local, national and international sculptors have contributed to this exhibition on the rugged landscape of Palmer.
Conversations with my Father 2
This collection of small scuptures and collage/drawings further the idea of fragmented or non-existant conversations between my father and I. He nver saw any of these.
A few images from the opening of the exhibition at Newmarch Gallery, Prospect.
CONVERSATIONS WITH MY FATHER 1, Barossa Regional Gallery, opening February 9 2024.
This series of ironic paintings were based upon the conversations that never took place over a lifetime. When my father died at 99 I could only think back to the brief phone calls and everything that was never said about his life and mine. We lived on opposite sices of the planet for fifty years. He never got to see any of these paintings or the accompanying drawings and sculptures which marked so many moments of my life.
The LOTTI series based upon the movement of a dancer.
The material is industrial wood from the local hardware store finished with industrial paint which reflects the down to earth nature of the dancer with whom I worked for a number of years
AWARDS 2024
