I’m happy to participate in the Biennale of Colour + Light at West End gallery, 5th October to 2nd November. A showcase of women abstract painters based in Melbourne.
Hope you can come along to the opening – Saturday 12th October 2-4pm
Stolen Kiss – acrylic-canvas – 70x92cm-2024. This painting is part of my current body of work and is included in the Bienalle.
I’ve been invited to host a 6 week drawing and painting course at the newly opened West End Project Art Space. Will be fun and productive, with a focus on learning skills as you develop your unique vision.
Group exhibition at Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne
11th November – 2nd December, 2023
I am thrilled to participate in ABSTRACTION 23, a group show at Charles Nodrum Gallery, 267 Church st, Richmond, 11th November – 2nd December.
There is an amazing selection of artists and I am honored to be a part of it.
This is the piece I have included- a piece from a body of works completed during my artist residency in Beijing. The fusion of 24 carat gold leaf and black coal reflects on the paradox that is coal in these current times.
It’s hard to capture the true effect via a screen. I hope you have a chance to view it in person.
Desire Gold – ink, black coal, 24 carat gold leaf, mulberry leaf paper – 145x75cm – 2013
21 August – 8 September, 2023
Kairos was a group exhibition including myself, Akiko Nagino, Pamela Rataj and Taka Sugawara, held at Kinross Art Centre. An exhibition that invited quiet contemplation, not just in a detached, intellectual way, but so that the viewer feels invited to be a part of the works themselves.
And further, by contemplatin these forms
In the relations which they bear to man,
he shall discern, how, trough various means
Which silently they yield, are multiplied
The spiritual presences of absent things.
William Wordsworth , The Excursion
charcoal, pastel, hahnemuhle paper – 38x29cm – 2006
Since a young child, I have been interested in the nature of the cycle of life and my place in the universe. This led me to search for answers and travel to sacred sites around the world as part of my personal research. Rupert Sheldrake notes that at the foundation of both Eastern and Western philosophies and sacred traditions if the threefold nature of ultimate consciousness – the ultimate ground of being, the source of form or order, and change, the flow of things. When in the process of making, I work intuitively, as in an active meditation, often using archetypal forms as signifiers or something beyond the physical dimension.
