Andrew McQualter and I went on to do another show together

Rachel Kent curated us into Primavera in 1999. We managed to keep the work pretty loose, considering how stressed out we were.

My first solo show after art school

'Variable Dimensions' at Temple Studios in Prahran, February 2006. Temple was run by Greg Creek, Caroline Eskdale and Rod McLeish.

I used adhesive tape that a friend had found in a skip outside a label factory, watercolour, butcher's paper, wood,  and acrylic on canvas.

The photos are by a guy called Robert - sorry Robert I can't remember your surname.

Over and Over

In 2005 I won a competition to design an artwork for the corner wall of the redeveloped Esplanade Hotel in St Kilda. I took the idea from a shell necklace, a string of variations of the same shape.

Photos by Albert Comper

The shapes are taken directly from the profiles of archaic korai. Here are some examples.

New Design for Outer Space

This was at Grey Area, a space I was involved in running. It was in Port Phillip Arcade, across the road from Flinders St Station, back in the middle of the late 90s.

New Design For Outer Space was a collaboration between Sarah Tuke, Andrew McQualter and me. This was our only show.

The exciting thing is that Dad has lent me his slide scanner, so you're going to see a lot more of this kind of thing on the blog.


These photos are by Michael Graeve.

My Dad's Slide Scanner

I keep meaning to ask my Dad if I can borrow his slide scanner. Then I could scan all the slides I have of my work from the pre digital photo era. That's like, another 10 years worth of work I could put up on this blog! The problem is that the things I borrow from Dad often seem to get broken while in my 'care', so I'm not sure  he'll lend it.

Another little known work by me.

This was called 'Late Empire'. It was  at Monash after they had refurbished the postgrad studios, back in 2003. They had a show of all the students work. In case you couldn't make it, this is what mine looked like.

Cath Martin took the photo - that's her in the corner, for scale.

The cats are by me

This is Sarah Cottier and Ashley Barber's place in Sydney. This is on the Selby. As I mentioned above, the cats are by me.

Arts Hub

Don't you think it's revolting how artists have to  pay money, to look at the jobs on arts hub? I mean if you were an engineer, or a window cleaner or a horticulturalist or a lawyer, in fact anything where it's normal to actually earn a regular wage anyway, you can look at the jobs on Seek for free. Why do artists always have to pay? and why do we keep doing it. I really hate arts hub. Half the 'jobs' they make you pay to see are volunteer positions anyway.

Family Business

Paint sample cards on Dutch aquatint paper stuck down using Japanese rice glue (it comes in a beautiful green tube with yellow lid). It's made in sections - I can arrange it different ways.

 I had in mind something Robert Irwin said about  the  planting for his garden at the Getty Museum in LA. He was seeing how much he could mix other colours into, say, an area of red flowers, and you still read it as a patch of red.

Photo by John Brash

I suppose you're wondering what this is a photo of...

You will find out soon enough. April the 11th to be exact.

This would look good in your backyard

This is a model for a proposed artwork to go in a collector's garden, behind his pool. Sadly the project never went ahead. I was a pity,  it would have looked good. Eight metres long, 3 metres high, eighty centimetres deep. Aluminium sprayed with car paint.

Aaron Curry

His work is quite like mine.

Half in Half out part 2 - a closer look

I've put some of this work on the blog before, under wall drawings, and cardboard and balloons, I suppose it makes more sense if you see it all together as one show. This was the first show at the (then) new Uplands in Chapel Street. In case you never went there, I should mention that you went up to the first floor via the lift or stairs, and you approached the gallery across an open deck area, and then you crossed a boardwalk to enter the space. I wanted to create a Spring-like atmosphere of growth and liveliness.  Andrius Lipsys took the photos.

 I had some money from a public sculpture I had done for Becton at the Esplanade in St Kilda (possible future post) so I decided to spend it on getting some metal sculptures made for this show. The principal was the same as the cardboard sculptures - two sheets of metal which slot together at right angles, but they needed bases as well or else they would have fallen over, and they were bolted together too. They were sprayed in car paint.