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.
MYTH AND METAMORPHOSIS 2025
A myth is a story about the past which attmepts to explain the inexplicable. The paintings are from the extended series on the long lost Port Adelaide docks where all that remains of 200 years of maritime history are the lenghts of concrete docks and a few rotting wood mooring posts. Concrete and wood have metamorphosised into paint. The scuptures create a myth of their own as ordinary, everyday materials assume unexpected guises.
HEYSEN SCULPTURE AWARD 2025
The theme for the Heysen Sculpture award for 2025 was the preservation of nature. I took as my starting point a quote from Jurassic Park that ‘nature will always find a way’. The quotidian materials in wood, plastic, perspex, stainelss steel and nylon all came from the shelves of Bunnings.
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 sculptures and collage/drawings further the idea of fragmented or non-existant conversations between my father and I. He never 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
