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
A PALMER INTERNATIONAL 2024/26
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 hemisphere. Configurations of stars were traditionally used to navigate but so many ancient monuments to the stars are aligned to predict the equinoxes. AVIAN REDUX was based upon something Greg Johns, the owner and developer of the Palmer site said in conversation. As a result of thirty years of revegetation some twenty species of native birds have returned. The Palmer International features local, national and international sculptors who interpret 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
CV
1966-1970Â Â Â Byam Shaw School of Art, London, studying painting
1972 Several prizes Liverpool Plains Art Prize
1974 Kernewek Lowender Art Prize
1975 Wobbly Wheel Gallery, Moonta
1976 Station Gallery, Moonta.
1978 Elizabeth Art Prize winner
1979 Elizabeth Art Prize winner
1981 Solo exhibition of sculpture Elizabeth East.
1982 Solo exhibition of sculpture and drawing at the Salisbury Council Gallery.
1995 Greenhill Gallery, North Adelaide.
2016 SALA group exhibition
2017 SALA group exhibition       Â
2018 Red Rhino Adelaide, solo exhibition, PASSAGE
2018 SALA group exhibition
2019 Arthouse Maclaren Vale, painting, RECENT WORK
2019 SALA group exhibition
2019 Black Cat Gallery Melbourne Paintings
2019 Immersion Gallery Brighton BLUE
2019 Adelaide Women and Children’s Hospital, solo exhibition
2019 Lambert Winery, Angaston solo exhibition RECENT WORK
2020 SALA exhibition
2019 November Inaugural group exhibition Main Gallery Adelaide
2020 January Main Gallery TWO ARTISTS
2021 February International group exhibition Main Gallery SEVEN IN ONE
2021 July PHENOMENON Main Gallery Adelaide
2021 August SALA exhibition Collective Haunt Adelaide PHENOMENON 2
2022 March DORIC Gallery M. solo exhibition Marion Cultural Centre
2022 April Main Gallery, Adelaide . Solo exhibition. MYTH, MEMORY, METAMORPHOSIS
2022 September SALA open studio Sculpture
2023 June Wonderground Art Space, Barossa Valley. BIOME
2023 September SALA sculpture SENTINEL
2023 Marion Gallery M Adelaide, Solo exhibition, sculpture and paintings
2023 Short listed Circle International art Prize
2024 Exhibition of sculpture Maclaren Vale, Arthouse
2024 January Brighton Jetty Sculpture, Adelaide. Installation LOTTRIO
2024 February Barossa Regional Gallery South Australia, solo exhibition, paintings CONVERSATIONS WITH MY FATHER 1
2024 March Palmer International Sculpture Competition South Australia. Installation ORION
2024 March Barossa Festival, South Australia, sculpture, Winery 1837 and Chateau Yaldara.
2024 April Newmarch Gallery Adelaide, solo exhibition, sculpture and collages. CONVERSATIONS WITH MY FATHER 2
2024 Honourable Mention Circle International Art Prize
2024 BBA art prize –short list.
2024 Placed 4th, 5th and 6th in America Art Awards sculpture section.
2024 Placed 1st, 2nd and 3rd in America Art Awards, painting section
2024 August SALA. Recent sculpture
2025 January Brighton Jetty Sculpture
2025 February Award Parcus Gallery, Primary colour [Hira Hira]
2025 March Heysen Sculpture award
2025 June Cambeltown Arthouse solo exhibition, paintings/sculpture
2025 July Award Parcus Gallery for BLUE [Nina’s Brush with the Ultimate Question]
2025 August Adelaide Design Expo MOTION. Sculpture
2026 January Brighton Jetty Sculpture
2026 March Heysen Sculpture award Hahndorf
2026 April Palmer International Sculpture Competition South Australia. Installation AVIAN REDUX
2026 August Marion Contemporary Art Prize, LIMINAL 2
2026 Honourable Mention Teraverna art prize
2027 Retrospective Mitcham Arts Centre
AWARDS 2024/2025
