North Head Project
Ten contemporary Australian artists create new work in response to North Head, Manly; exploring its Indigenous and cultural heritage, environmental significance, strategic and military history, and migration Read More…
Fairytales in Fairyland
Grafton Regional Gallery
6th July to 28th August 2011
Fairytales in Fairyland explores the sense of space in Australia given through a democracy that allows all beliefs to coexist. Space in Australia is abundant both physically and conceptually. Australian artists have responded to this abundance or its outcomes with works that move beyond the real or refer to or explore the belief in fantasy.
Artists are: Alison Williams, Avital Sheffer, Bob Connery, Cass Samms, Rindi Salomon, Jenny Kitchener, Joe Peady, John van der Kolk, Karla Dickens, Katka Adams, Louise Fulton, Steven Giese, Stuart Payne, Dave Funnell
image of back cover of Black Beauty Artist Book
34cm x 32cm, 20 pages, mixed medium
Locked, Lost, and Lonely …
Locked, Lost and Lonely is the title of the piece ( Aboriginal Women in Vintage Bird Cage) it is also the title of the window install @ Read More…
Locked, Lost and Lonely
The text is a poem i wrote for the show My Teenage Years which sits in front of The Black Madonna. I walked dog by my side Read More…
Never Forgotten
The Wicca Cradle is a black empty tomb, covered by a black veil; it symbolizes the lost, the grief, and the heartache that is never forgotten. My Read More…
The Honey and The Bunny
”Film is an even newer medium; here she collabrates with film maker Nils Crompton on her own film……Honey (played by Destiny, a Widjabul/Bandjalung Aboriginal drag queen) and Read More…
There’s no place like Home
As i enjoy the process of reshaping and recreating my own exaggerated and unlikely Fairytales I watched The Wizard of Oz with my daughter in a new Read More…
Stick Figure Spirits
As a small child growing up in Waterloo (a Suburb of Sydney) I often dreamt of very scary stick figures. At the age of 33 I moved Read More…