Selected Solo Exhibitions   •  1981- 2018

Natural Histories
1982-84

Invention of Ayers Rock
1996

Coalcliff Days
2011

Test Results
2015

Report from the
Littoral Zone
2018

Artist Statement

My art spans both digital and analog media, often within the same body or series of works. In that sense all my exhibitions can be seen as multimedia installations.

Each exhibition focuses on a theme or issue, usually concerning my local environment such as mangroves, wildlife or coastal urban developments. By combining or layering the unique attributes of digital and analogue media I aim to construct works that embodies the dramatic ironies and competing perspectives of contemporary realities. In turn, each concept demands specific media and technical applications or treatment. Each choice of medium and technical approach solicits a different reading and emotional response from the viewer.

Much of my work is a response to the changing nature of my local rainforest, mangrove and beach environments where I grew up and continue to live. The impacts of rapid urban development, global warming, sea rise and tourism have all been significant concerns in my exhibitions over the last forty years. My paintings, photographs, videos, sculptures, writings and installations often grow out of each other across time and space. The production process is usually highlighted within a work or recorded on video or the web. I prefer low tech solutions and seek to opt for simple practical expressions. In many ways images are built upon fragments of the past, remembered highlights that are projected rather like TV ads or movie trailers.

My exhibitions are condensed audio-visual theatre sets. These gallery table arrangments are intended to be served up and consumed like home delivery meals, or podcasts, then slowly digested at your leisure, upon reflection. This gab 'n run strategy sprouts like a ginger root in a non-linear fashion. Such an approach allows me to develop ideas in a more organic way to reflect how my daily life is experienced as a series of events or experiences. Images, signs, motifs and memories all have a habit of returning like old friends to strike up new relationships.

I often return to re-evaluate ideas and perspectives years later. Some images stay with you and become talismatic or iconic - hooks to anchor experiences to. Art and life (the distinctions grow less clear cut as I get older) inform each other by turns and folds. I tend to work locally and think globally. The politics of global and local life informs my art in practical as well as conceptual directions and productions.