Drift
SmartArt Gallery 2025
A celebration of summer, here the human figures may be a convincing presence but attention to detail gives way to gestural, expressive brushwork. In these landscape paintings, the figures rarely represent any person rather a depiction of the everyday person and audiences can recall their own memories of visits to the beach and days in the afternoon sun..
Wild Knowing
Newmarch Gallery 2024
In this series, native Australian animals are set before grand landscapes in a traditional European portrait format.
In a humorous twist, these ‘protest animals’ allow us to interrogate colonial history, environmental change, and the tumultuous relationship between humans, animals and the land. Some animals hold placards “Go home”, others wear labelled neck chains “resist” “feminist”, “pride” and the target.
These animals are symbols of ecological exploitation and dispossession (hunting, fur trade, extinction) or metaphors for resilience.
