About

I have been a practicing artist for decades now and the one consistency throughout my work has been my interest in the observation of the world through the various subject interests I’ve explored. Exploring an idea as a vehicle to express my observations. This often leads to a fusion of a quite high realism and an often almost surreal expression, though really it’s more conceptual, observed realism that I’m exploring. Take an idea and then apply the observation of the objects and content that expresses thatidea. This leads to a final work that is not a simple document of what I’ve observed, but rather an expression of my imagination rooted in the world as I’ve observed it.

That tension between an idea and delivering it in a way that conforms to how I’m observing it is at the heart of my practice. Each painting presents a slew of possible interactions to explore as I work the process from the initial inception, to the final rendition. Throughout the application I strive to keep a sense of life in the work, that very hard to categorise element that one has to feel, perhaps even intuit, rather than simply reason. It can be as simple as an unexpected placement in the composition or an addition or subtraction of another element that can bring a work to life.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 - Solo Exhibition - Traffic Jam Galleries, Sydney
2023 - Solo Exhibition - Cooks Hill Gallery, Newcastle
2017 – Solo Exhibition Maunsell Wickes Gallery, Sydney
2016 – Solo Exhibition Maunsell Wickes Gallery, Sydney
2015 – Solo Exhibition Maunsell Wickes Gallery, Sydney
2014 – By the lake Maunsell Wickes Gallery, Sydney
2013 – Harbour: A personal view Maunsell Wickes Gallery, Sydney
2012 – Solo Exhibition Maunsell Wickes Gallery, Sydney
2011 – Solo Exhibition Maunsell Wickes Gallery, Sydney
2009 – Solo Exhibition Seek Gallery, Sydney
2008 – Solo Exhibition Harrison Galleries, Sydney
2007 – Solo Exhibition Harrison Galleries, Sydney
2006 – Solo Exhibition Gallery 1011, Melbourne
2006 – Solo Exhibition Harrison Galleries, Sydney
2005 – Solo Exhibition Gallery 460, NSW
2004 – Solo Exhibition Brian Moore Gallery, Sydney
2003 – Solo Exhibition Gallery 460, NSW
2002 – Solo Exhibition Brian Moore Gallery, Sydney
2000 – Solo Exhibition Eddie Glastra Gallery, Sydney
1998 – Solo Exhibition Eddie Glastra Gallery, Sydney
1996 – Solo Exhibition Eddie Glastra Gallery, Sydney
1994 – Solo Exhibition Eddie Glastra Gallery, Sydney
1992 – Solo Exhibition Eddie Glastra Gallery, Sydney

OTHER EXHIBITIONS
1991 - Mixed Exhibition Eddie Glastra Gallery, Sydney
1990 - Mixed Exhibition Eddie Glastra Gallery, Sydney
2020 Finalist in the Kilgour Prize, NAG
2019 Artastique Maitland
2018 Part of Cstudios Group show
2008 Wynne Prize Finalist
2008 Exhibition Art Sydney (Art Fair)
1995 – 1998 Dempster Gallery, Melbourne
Kirkaldy Davies Gallery, Melbourne
1983 Art Express Sydney

COLLECTIONS
BHP Biliton, AMP Society,Beerworth & Partners, John Landerer
Joseph Brenda
Private collections in Australia, England, Italy, Israel, Japan, Switzerland, Hong Kong,
Singapore and the United States

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