Category Archives: Visual Art

Subconscious Shenanigans

This Dreams of Verdant Decadence installation consists of two parts: the flowers etc. in the vault itself and scribbled black drawings and text in the corridor outside. My stated aim was that the richness and profusion of shapes and colours … Continue reading

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Installation Fun & Games

Talk about cutting a fine line. I was still installing Dreams of Verdant Decadence right up until people started arriving. Granted this was the wall drawings in the corridor approaching the vault. I really would have liked a day or … Continue reading

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Santa’s riding a heatwave this year. Stay safe, stay cool and have a brilliant 2024.

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Dreams of Verdant Decadence

I have an installation opening on February 2, 2024 at Umbrella Contemporary Arts, Townsville, in the downstairs Vault Space. For the past few months, I have spent most nights binge watching TV and making plastic flowers. Plastic flowers sound awful, … Continue reading

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Time passing in the phases of the moon

Already there is less than a fortnight before most of the prints in Moon Phase: Chasing Transcendence are consigned to a drawer in my already art-cluttered house. It closes on the 23rd May. If you haven’t yet been, I hope … Continue reading

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Poetry & Print

Over a three month period this year, I wrote over thirty poems as an adjunct to my print exhibition, Moon Phase: Chasing Transcendence. I’ve inserted one page I designed with both the image and the accompanying poem. When writing I … Continue reading

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Caught having a cuddle

After having been photographed numerous times at the opening of Moon Phase: Chasing Transcendence, I thought I could sneak a quiet cuddle in with my very supportive partner and fellow artist, Graeme Buckley! I was wrong. This is one of … Continue reading

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Moon Phase: Chasing Transcendence

My exhibition, Moon Phase: Chasing Transcendence, is now on show. It is strange to revisit the work of a couple of years ago. Though a difficult hang, the wonderful staff at Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts managed it with aplomb and … Continue reading

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Please Take a Seat

I recently had an installation in the Vault Space at Umbrella Studio. It consisted of four verses of prose about chronic pain. The responses I got for ‘just words’ were fascinating. One person told me it made them cry. Others … Continue reading

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Install Day, Gallery 48

        Jill and Margaret, busy on the install for Furred, Scaled & Feathered. Opening Sunday 29th Oct, 2 – 5pm, Gallery 48, 2/48 The Strand, Townsville

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