My Painting ‘A Rose Connection’ has been selected as a finalist in the Calleen Art Award at Cowra Regional Gallery, NSW. The annual Calleen Art Award was established in 1977 as an acquisitive art prize by Mrs. Patricia Fagan OAM to encourage originality, creativity and excellence in the visual arts, and is made possible by the generous support of the Calleen Trust.
‘ A Rose Connection’, oil on linen , 112cm x 112cm, 2024.
My still life painting ‘Sensory Perception’ was selected as a finalist in 2024 Muswellbrook Art Prize. The Muswellbrook Art Prize aims to foster the interest in and understanding of art in the Upper Hunter Valley and to help promote and encourage Australian artist’s and their work. The Muswellbrook Art Prize is the second-richest art prize in South East Asia.
‘Sensory Perception’
oil on linen, 112cmx 112cm, 2024.
Very honored to have my painting “The Artist’s Retreat” acquired by the Macquarie Group Collection. The Macquarie Group Collection acquires art by emerging Australian artists, in all media, around the theme of The Land and its Psyche.
The Artist’s Retreat, 60cm x 66cm, oil on linen, 2020.
The Kedumba Drawing Collection was started in 1990 and embodies and reflects all the elements of outstanding drawing created in Australia over more than 50 years and has acquired almost two hundred drawings.
I was fortunate enough to have my work “ Looking In, Seeing Out - Bundanon” acquired for this collection
The subject of my work depicts
myself almost as a voyeur peering from the outside through the glass windows of the The Bundanon Homestead during my recent residency. Capturing both inside and the surrounding landscape in the one frame, as a play on reflections, allows the internal foyer and staircase to fuse seamlessly with the mountains and trees. My technique of mark making, formed intuitively over time, evokes the fragility of remembering by creating a blurring of focus and the slowing of viewing time. The drawn line also relates to the concept of memory consisting of a mass of marks designated into what we have seen, heard and felt.