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Artist's Statment
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Sensuous, tactile, landscape, contemplative, spiritual, material, minimalist, serious, 'petit sensation', responsive, evocative, physical, hierarchical, meaningful, being, awareness, ambiguous, engaging, of the moment, relevant, colour, textural, spatial, residues of process, multi faceted, layered profound, primordial, honest, abstract, seeing, imagination, touching...pompous?
The works are the product of several trips to the desert areas of Central Australia. The experience of being 'in' the landscape is revisited in the studio where the paintings were done. The introduction of memory is important in understanding the meaning and relevance of the landscape. The passage of time eliminates the specificity of a particular landscape allowing the work becomes to be symbolically meaningful rather than specific and observed. Specificity of the landscape is limited to colours, textures and materiality. Abstract features of the landscape like patterns, tonality also strongly influence the realisation of the work. My response to the landscape is based on experience and an profound resonance with it. The immediacy that is experienced in front of the landscape finds statement in the materiality of the surface of the painting.
These abstracted landscapes are more about seeing than landscape, although the landscape is the crucial impetus for the work. However the intention is not to give the immediacy of a recognisable or precise location. These works aim to realise the truth of seeing rather than the truth of what is visible before one in the landscape. If we, the viewer, accept the invitation to see what the paintings offer, then it begins to reveal its truth/meanings. Seeing is both an invitation and the beginning of understanding. An understanding that reveals itself as the painting lives within us. They (the paintings) offer us a possible that informs us about the real.
Through these paintings I aim to allow being to be revealed. So let the work "be". Let it imagine for us and within us.
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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Cutcliffe Gallery | 2000 | |
Graduation Exhibition University of Wollongong | 1998 | |
Working the Surface Campbelltown Bicentennial City
Art Gallery | 1997 | |
Small Works Gallery Cafe, | 1994 | |
Long Gallery,University of Wollongong | 1993 | |
Marks &S ymbols Crawford Gallery | 1992 | |
Foyer Gallery, UWS | 1991 | |
Long Gallery, University of Wollongong | 1989 | |
Body of Symbols Sylvester Studios, | 1989 | |
Post Squared, | 1989 | |
Breewood Gallery, Katoomba | 1987 | |
Twin Rivers Queensland College of Art Gallery,
Brisbane | 1986 | |
Bathurst Regional Art GallerySurvey Exhibition | 1985 | |
Twin Rivers Regional Galleries Touring Exhibition | 1985
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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In Scattered Company Camp[belltown Regional Art Gallery | 2001 | |
In Scattered Company M.C.F.A and Brown University USA | 2001 | |
In Scattered Company Kudos Gallery | 2000 | |
Sardana Event (Olympic Games) | 2000 | |
Article regent street gallery | 2000 | |
Australian Portfolio Sunderland University England | 1999 | |
Akcent Prague Czech Republic | 1999 | |
Moree Regional Art Gallery | 1999 | |
Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery | 1998 | |
Central Mandala Campbelltown City Art Gallery | 1996 | |
Nexus, UNE, Armidale | 1992 | |
29 Ways, Campbelltown City Art Gallery | 1992 | |
Self Raising First Draft West, | 1990 | |
Endangered Spaces, Artspace, | 1989 | |
Nothing to Declare, Post Squared, | 1989 | |
eMr, | 1988 | |
Sydney Printmakers, Blaxland Gallery, | 1988 | |
Sydney Printmakers, Blaxland Gallery, | 1987 | |
Kanagawa Independents Print Biennale,Yokohama,Japan | 1986
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COLLECTIONS
Art Bank
Clark Art Center, Chicago, U.S.A.
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery
Manly Regional Art Gallery
Orange Civic Centre Gallery
Orange Regional Art Gallery
Goulburn Regional Art Gallery
Griffith Regional Art Gallery
Department of Education, Victoria
Department of Education and Youth Affairs, Canberra
Hawksbury Community Centre
University of Western Sydney, Macarthur
University of Wollongong
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