My Island Home
Bringing my work home to Phillip Island at last. In the new Berninneit Art Gallery, Cowes, I could share my love of the island with locals and visitors. Through workshops and artists talks, stories were shared and my concern for Millowl's eroding shoreline was raised.
@Berninneit Art Gallery, Cowes
Perspectives
The Landscape Unveiled
This group exhibition considered Australian landscape. I offered works smaller than my usual panoramic pieces, having reflected upon paths taken through the landscape.
@SALT Contemporary Art, Queenscliff
On the Edge
Foundation and Friends of the Botanical Gardens
This group exhibition highlighted Australian flora, fauna and habitats threatened by climate change, development, introduced species and other environmental issues. On the Edge showcased a diversity of endangered and vulnerable Australian species and ecosystems.
My contribution was of the Eastern Curlew and the Bar-tailed Godwit, both shorebirds that migrate annually to Phillip Island, Victoria.
@ The Royal Botanical Gardens, Sydney
Near and Far
To this group exhibition I added my musings on the unique biodiverse environment of Phillip Island and my concern for many vulnerable species that rely on our stewardship of this extraordinary natural habitat.
@ Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff
Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize
Finalist 2022
The prize is an opportunity for artists to investigate the world around them, and present their perspectives on natural science. It encourages artists to make a statement about the scientific issues facing our planet, and offers a valuable platform for them to contribute to the environmental debate.
@South Australian Museum, Adelaide
The Sanctuary Project
Where did you find sanctuary in 2020?
Inspired by my own experience of lockdown on Phillip Island and in Manningham shire during the global pandemic, the large panoramic drawings and pilgrimage walk of The Sanctuary Project, offer a restorative practice within nature, encouraging the viewer to re-centre, re-calibrate and remember the places and moments of sanctuary found in an untethered, COVIDworld during 2020; to re-consider the pace of our over-full lives.
Supported by Manningham Arts through the Arts and Creative Industries Small Fellowship 20/21
@Warrandyte and Yarra River Reserve
The Overwintering Project - Westernport
The Overwintering Project is a long-term environmental art project that unites artists around Australia to raise awareness for our most endangered group of birds, migratory shorebirds, and their habitat. Migratory shorebirds spend the summer on our beaches, then fly annually to the arctic to breed, a round trip of over 25,000 km.
The Project was co-ordinated by Melbourne artist Kate Gorringe-Smith.
@Mornington Peninsula Art Gallery, Victoria
mind the gap
I curated mind the gap in 2016 to raise awareness concerning the social, political and economic gap between Australia and Timor-Leste and in particular, the dispute, at the time, over oil and gas in the Timor Sea. This page offers information about that exhibition and about the large body of work I have produced in response to visiting Timor-Leste over a number of years.
@Maroondah Access Gallery, Ringwood, Melbourne
>nothing's ever black and white
When considering the theme >nothing’s ever black and white, my initial determination was to challenge a long established preference for black and white in my oeuvre. As a result, the sights, sounds and textures of travel - particularly in America - packed themselves into my suitcase and, on arrival back in Melbourne, found their way into silk-screens, linocuts and drawings with an explosion of colour.
@Montsalvat, Eltham, Melbourne
sacred objects
sacred objects was inspired by an old Sunday School Register (1894 – 1904) found in a second hand shop in South Australia. Its discovery prompted me to reflect on my understanding of faith and my own church upbringing; to muse on the sacredness of life and the reality of loss; to consider beauty, simplicity and imperfection; to value the legacy of those who have gone before.
@Montsalvat, Eltham, Melbourne
red silk
red silk was originally inspired by the seventeenth century Japanese ukiyo-e prints, the ‘pictures of the floating world’ and by the Japanese woodcuts of master printmaker, Hokusai (1760 -1849). By contemplating nature and unity in these works, I began to respond visually to new thoughts on beauty and vulnerability. The delicate design of a dragonfly’s wing, the fragility of antique paper, even the circular patterns originally inspired by ancient Japanese kimono, emerged as symbolic motifs to express life, hope and eternity.
@Chapel on Station Gallery, Melbourne
