Poor fellow

My country.

with graphite pencil from the Tinguely 

Old nudes

I found these in a box of memorabilia collected by my mother. I haven't had the heart to look through it until now. 

Paintings from an exhibition in 1998. 

Nudes in this fashion were the first paintings I ever sold, to the (then) New Farm Gallery, in Brunswick Street. Somewhere I think I have a photocopy of the check.

Forms of refuge

Playing with forms.

Glorious detail

Ghost

A series of prints, using a hard plastic surface pressed onto an ink pad. Forms produced by removing ink.

Simple forms accentuate the serendipitous field. I think the ghost print is better than the original.

Black square
ink on paper, 105 x 140 mm

Black square (ghost)
ink on paper, 105 x 140 mm

Black square

Trying desperately to free art from the dead weight of the real world, I took refuge in the form of the  square. 

Kazimir Malevich, The Non-Objective World, 1927

ink print on paper, 104 x 150mm

Greetings from Australia!

Postcards from the edge. The end days.

I work on postcards much of the time. Travel drawings, and printmaking in the Gillies Ridge studio. Recently I created stencil shadows (empty space) using the shards of bark from the spotted gums around the studio. They look, serendipitously, like falling ash.

I can feel it in my mouth.

I created an artwork for the Royal Queensland Art Society exhibition this month, Journeys in Art. until 24 February at the Petrie Terrace Gallery.

Greetings from Australia!

card, spray acrylic on paper, 

on (found) postcard stand

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Artist statement

I create works on paper, postcard size, which recognise small and inherently superficial impressions captured on-the-move. 

This summer I was home in Australia, but the experience was totally foreign. The country burned. In my studio, next to the blackened national park,  I printed and painted with ash. 

The series of prints used in this installation are based on fragments of flaked bark from local spotted gums. They float like ashes through dark times, and I offer them as a response and a warning. 

Greetings from Australia!