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Selected projects

2022 - 
current  American Light
Graphite on paper drawings of each page of the book ‘American Light: The Luminist Movement 1850-1875’ with all text, animal life and signs of human habitation removed. An ongoing project.

2021Sleep
A sequence of six paintings exhibited at THIS IS NO FANTASY Melbourne in 2021, focussing on an imagined latent autonomy within individuals engaged in collective protest.


2019Glimmer
A reconsideration of the role of colour, surface, scale and paint application, with paintings depicting three of the covers of the fictitious journal Glimmer. Shown at Darren Kight Gallery in 2019.


2017I am Wes Thorne
A collaboration with the fictional figure Wes Thorne as part of The National: New Australian Art Biennial 2017. Sixteen found books altered by Thorne were paired with drawn mirrored copies. Handwritten autobiographical texts made in mirror by Thorne were also exhibited.  


2017CongressPhotographic recreations of historic performance work by fictitious Australian artist Louise Bryce, based on found archival material. Congress was the winner of the 2017 BalletLab McMahon Contemporary Art Award.


2017CallPart monochrome paintings, part trompe l’oeil sculptures, the paintings in Call were deceptively realistic facsimiles of tattered hard-back library books made uncannily large. Exhibited at Art Basel Hong Kong 2017 with THIS IS NO FANTASY.


2016A Stranger in the Mirror
Staged at Darren Knight Gallery in 2019, a series of painted books made under the malign influence of fictive author Tor Rasmussen


2005ShelvedSelf-authored painted books, Nellie Castan Gallery, 2005


1996 -  2014Formalism 
Artworks from various exhibitions and points of development, each characterised by a reliance on formal properties.




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