Excavation

This work is one of a suite of drawings that responds to the work 'Kangaroo Stalking' by S.T.Gill. It also plays with certain ideas or problems in the depiction of landscape more broadly.

The last of his kind

'The Last of His Kind' is one of a suite of drawings that responds to the work 'Kangaroo Stalking' by S.T.Gill. It also plays with certain ideas or problems in the depiction of landscape more broadly. This work is in part a kind of thought experiment on non-human (or not quite human) consciousness and the organism's particular register of it's environment.

The return

Face to Face Exhibition

Expedition

'Expedition' is one of a suite of drawings that responds to the work 'Kangaroo Stalking' by S.T.Gill. It also plays with certain ideas or problems in the depiction of landscape more broadly. Expedition is an imagined studio portrait of the ST Gill's hunter commemorating his triumphant return from his sporting expedition.

Self portrait as time traveller

Self Portrait as Time Traveller' is one of a suite of drawings that responds to the work 'Kangaroo Stalking' by S.T.Gill. It also plays with certain ideas or problems in the depiction of landscape more broadly. The work plays on an old spatial illusion or trick of photography(think tourists at the Leaning Tower of Pisa). Maybe the trick works temporally as well as spatially or at least fails equally to convince us in both dimensions.

The search : version 1

The Search (version 1) is one of a suite of drawings that responds to the work 'Kangaroo Stalking' by S.T.Gill. It also plays with certain ideas or problems in the depiction of landscape more broadly. The exhibition invited SCCA staff to each respond to a particular work within the Deakin collection.

Liquid landscape (Headland)

A complex structure floats on an undulating colour field. This could be a description of any landscape painting where the built environment, human culture, intersects with the natural world. In Stephen Bush's "Cumberland" (2010) an appropriated landscape supports a log cabin - centrally and ideally placed in a picturesque, alpine landscape. The cabin though, has no relationship to the ground plane, above which it hovers, while its shadows fall in the opposite direction to the buildings and mountains behind it. Bush fetishizes paint, exploring its plasticity and exploiting the viewer's gullibility (as do I). My work realises Bush's aesthetic in three dimensions, extending it to meet with the act of looking, and asks the viewer to merge with the work of art.

Immersion

'Immersion' was created as a response to Zaita Oldfield's 'Untitled' photograph and contemplates the natural element of water and our changing relationship to it in the Australian landscape.

With Vesna

The dance questioned ideas of animacy and inanimacy, staging a conversation between and amongst sculptural and human presences.

Virtue

An oil painted diptych on 2 panels of a replicated portrait

Glassimations

Glassimations, an exhibition of contemporary Australian artworks that bridge the materials of glass and animation to produce works with qualities that are unique to these two mediums and yet create a dialogue between them. The exhibition includes the work of a variety of artists. Lee Whitmore paints on glass to achieve an animated image that metamorphs with its own unique movement; Tom Moore animates his blown glass creations into their own world; Deirdre Feeney animates onto her glass architectural forms to produce places of light that condense time and are full of intangible narrative; Mark Eliott and Jack McGrath collaborate to bring their understanding and skills of glass and animation together, creating works that are founded in the production processes of both materials; and Lienors Torre and Alastair Boell collaborate to create animated films that become objects of glass and furniture, able to occupy real spaces in our domestic lives.

Vivienne screaming

Displayed during the Glassimations Exhibition at Deakin University Art Gallery 6 Jun - 14 Jul 2013

Bird caged/caged bird

In Alex Selenitsch’s work, Restored Messy Life, the artist considers the materiality of the book form, placing emphasis on the normally invisible structure of a book by making the written word inaccessible. In my work Bird Caged / Caged Bird I highlight the materiality of animation, which is usually seen as ephemeral screen based images and make it exist as an object experienced within a different space and time.