ARTIST STATEMENT

My work focuses on subtle feelings of fleeting enlightenment and emotional understandings. Making my way through life expressing everyday activities and interactions through art, I attempt to make sense of our own human existence within the eternity of the universe itself. My chosen background education in mathematics and astronomy, often brings balance and compositional poetry to my expressions of sensitivity in a modern world.

ART PRACTICE

As a practicing artist, I have been working for over 20 years with oils on canvas, works on paper and works on board. My preferred studio-work mediums include soft pastel, pencil, watercolour/gouache, pen & ink. My work developed digitally in 2008, which now includes a line of limited edition layered photography art prints. After a lifelong love affair of watching the street art movement take shape in Melbourne, I have decided to delve into mural painting. My first work emerged at the start of 2021.

CV

Solo shows

2009 | Kingston Arts Centre Gallery: ‘Catching time’, large pastel works, small works on paper, ‘love in the windows’ series and oils on canvas

2007 | Ashton Grove, South Yarra: ‘Patina and the sea’, oils on canvas

Group shows

2018 | La Sagra upstairs gallery: ‘Life drawings’, works on paper

2017 | Brunswick Street Gallery: ‘Landscapes: reflected and represented’, works on paper

2017 | No Vacancy Gallery: ‘Meanderings in visual language’, works on paper

2017 | Sandringham Library: ‘Botany and urban forests’, digital prints on paper

2017 | Le Studio Mordialloc: Open studio, works in progress

2016 | Brunswick Street Gallery: ‘Environmental awareness’, works on paper and digital prints on paper

2016 | Scugnizzo Ristorante: Group shows, works on paper, digital photography, digital prints on paper

2016 | Inner Space Gallery: Group show with Emerging Artists Australia, works on paper

2016 | Le Studio Mordialloc: Open studio, works in progress

2014 | Brunswick Street Gallery: ‘Sleep and suspension’, pastel on paper

2013 | Brunswick Street Gallery: ‘Organic repetition’, works on paper

2013 | Brunswick Street Gallery: ‘Group portrait show’, works on paper

2012 | Brunswick Street Gallery: ‘Freckles and faces’, works on paper

2012 | Brunswick Street Gallery: ‘Portraits of strangers’, pastel on paper

2003 | Babel Fitzroy: ‘Scapes’, oils on canvas

Art awards

2010 | ArtzBlitz at Kingston Arts Centre Gallery - 1st Prize for 2D artwork

Art show participation

2017 & 2021 | Linden Postcard Show

2015 – 2016 | BSG 40x40

2011 – 2017 | Brunswick Street Gallery Small Works Exhibition

2003 & 2009 – 2017 | KACG ArtzBlitz (visual art component)

2021 | KACG ArtzBlitz (writing component)

Public Art & Murals

2021 | Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation: Me and UooUoo art trail, exhibition and auction

2021 | Mural in Ormond Road, Elwood: Natural Health Supplies, corner of Broadbent Lane

Published artwork / commission

2020 | DRUM theatre posters for City of Dandenong

2020 | Artbox Club limited edition print

Education

2009 | Holmesglen | Certificate IV in Small Business Management for Creative business management

2001-2005 | Monash University | Bachelor of Science in Mathematics & Astronomy

2000 | RMIT | Bachelor Fine Art in Painting (incomplete, first year only)

1998 | Sandringham Secondary College | VCE | Graduate award certificate for Excellence in Painting