About

With a focus on abstract painting, my studio practice is preoccupied with a wide sense of origins and lineage. This is directed by and shaped through the lens of my particularly complicated familial history in Australia. While I am devoted to the purity and promise of postwar minimalism, I equally insist on the complications of how we function, interrelate, remember and physically exist, in real life. As a result, I’m seeking to portray the “simply complex”. This plays out in an often precarious and arbitrary balance between dualities such as intuition and mechanical precision, organic and logic, impulse and structure, expression and perception, movement and holding patterns. 

I use a range of water based paints – liquid acrylics, watercolour, gouache and raw pigments – in an effort to keep image making as fluid as possible. Unlike oil painting, there is no possibility of subtraction; only addition. Every move becomes an account of making that cannot be undone, unless the paint is sanded back, which exposes a visible record of removal rather than a hidden process. The final work then evokes (rather than depicts) perpetual flux and the impossibility of clarifying what is present in a particular moment. 

Whether it be in the studio, interviewing for Art Fictions podcast, or creative essay writing, my narrative-led practice is preoccupied with the fluidity of imagery, where ideas originate and how images are created. I’m continually aware of how stories evolve and borders dissolve so that pockets of practice spill into one another.

Recent Exhibition Highlights:

Spectrum, White Noise Projects and Artist Support Pledge Collaboration, One Paved Court Gallery, September 2024

The Waves Beside Them Danced, ARC Studios, June 2024

It Rose and It Fell, Terrace Gallery, May 2024

Emerging Artists, Dodomu Gallery New York, May 2024

Outside/In, SET Ealing, February – March 2024

STABLE, Bobinska Brownlee, December 2023 – January 2024

PLOT at H-M-S, Platforms Project Athens, October 2023

Cass Open Open, Chapel Arts Studios, May – July 2023

A Private Private View, invite only solo show, V.O Curations, April 2023

Twenty20, M Galleries New Jersey, ASC Gallery Courthouse, Apr – Oct 2022 curated by Marq Kearey, Darren O’Brien, Pete Mountford, Frank May and featuring work by 10 US and 10 UK artists across three venues in the US and UK.

The Comrades they were Brave (We Salute You!), GRS44, Mar – Apr 2022 curated by Cecilia Sjoholm and featuring work by Cecilia Sjoholm, Deborah Tchoudjinoff, Garth Gatrix, Hatty Buchanan, Iain Hales, Laura Moreton-Griffiths. Text by Chris Fite-Wassilak.Art