Exhibitions
2020 Understory, Project Gallery 90, Paddington
2020 Seen Unseen, The Shop Gallery, Glebe
2014 High & Low, Near & Far, A-M Gallery, Newtown
2013 Emerging Artist Prize, NOW Contemporary Art Prize, Shoalhaven Regional Arts Gallery
2012 Finalist Paddington Art Prize, Mary Place Gallery,Paddington
2010 Painted from Memory, Kerrie Lowe Gallery, Newtown
2010 A Winter Harvest, June-July 2010, selected gallery artists, Anita Traverso Gallery, Melbourne
2008 Spring Collection, Greenstone Gallery, Emerald Beach
2007 Fire and Rain, Horus & Deloris Contemporary Art Space, Pyrmont
2007 Streetscape: featuring the paintings of Martin McEwen, Gallery Adagio, Glebe
2006 Recent Paintings, The Last Drop Café, Dulwich Hill
2006 After the Winter, Horus & Deloris Contemporary Art Space, Pyrmont
2005 Mura Clay Artists of 2005, Mura Clay Gallery, Newtown
2004 Mura Clay Artists of 2004, Mura Clay Gallery, Newtown
2004 Focus on the Inner City, Mura Clay Gallery, Newtown
Education
2010 Painting Master Class, NAS, Kim Spooner
2009 Painting Master Class, NAS, Roger Crawford
2002 Painting II, Fine Arts, Meadowbank TAFE, Steven Harvey
2002 Digital Art, Fine Arts, Meadowbank TAFE
2001 Painting I, Fine Arts, Meadowbank TAFE, Peter Sharp
1977 Diploma in Education, University of Sydney
1976 Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Education, University of Sydney
Bibliography
Image: Saddler’s Creek, Art Collector, April 2011
The Art Life: Leaving the Comfort Zone, July 2007
In my work I am interested in exploring both the experience and representation of ‘place’; the way it feels to be immersed in landscape and to move between physical and imagined places.
In my most recent work I have taken liberties with the appearance of landscape. I have played with colour, light, space and, increasingly, remembered forms, to produce images that focus more on expressing my experience and interaction with the landscapes they were drawn from. While in these places I sketch in crayon, watercolour or ink to create an image and ideas bank. I start on a number of small paintings ‘plein air’. These ‘sketches’ and visual notes form the basis of larger works that I paint in the studio. These images are figurative yet draw on elements of abstraction.
In my earlier ‘Postcard’ series, each installation expresses a response to place based on an accumulation of visual images. Familiar elements of a landscape were painted onto small postcards, then assembled to form a multifaceted image that represents how one experiences place. Each individual image presents a realistic depiction, however collectively the multiple perspectives allow us to view the landscape from within and from above simultaneously. As the eye shifts between different focal points a sense of spatial and temporal movement is created.