In 2023 I was highly motivated to support the Indigenous Voice to Parliament. In fact not much else felt worth doing. Creating pretty landscapes was not in my frame. I just needed to find a way to have my own voice of support heard and Seen. I have never been particularly fond of artwork that contained […]
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Flora & Eros Where the bee sucks, there suck I In a cowslip’s bell I lie. William Shakespeare ‘The Tempest’ This body of work focuses on the colourful, complex and curious ways that native flowering plants attract their pollinators. These colourful paintings, in oils, are based on photographs I have taken on our road trips […]
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Palm Valley is one of the most fascinating and beautiful places in Central Australia, a remnant pocket of prehistory. I am captivated by the geology, flora and the variety of terrain, the Amphitheatre being so different from the Valley itself. I have been fortunate to camp at Palm Valley many times over the last 10 […]
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In 2016 I had a solo exhibition at the June Marriot Gallery Alice Springs titled FLORA – The Alchemy of Playing with Plants. As the name suggests it was a celebration of the many ways I use plants in creating my artwork: for naturally dyeing silk scarves, making paper from native grasses, creating Vandyke prints on the […]
Read MoreI have enjoyed photographing my concertina books and natural dyed scarves together. They have a special resonance I feel; maybe because they share an elongated format, maybe because of their tactile nature, the folds and the surprise when you unfurl them. I like to think, it’s the way they hold encapsulated, my response to the […]
Read MoreIn 2014 I purchased an off the shelf, rather expensive, flying camera. Otherwise known as a Quadcopter or a ‘drone’. For me it was a creative tool, not a toy, or a spying device. I used it to gain the perspective I love, from above. Eventually I was able to fly it well enough to capture exactly the […]
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Finding and grinding stones to make ochre is a pleasurable, if time-consuming activity, one that connects me and my work to the land. I don’t look for large sources of powdered ochre and I certainly don’t take stones from areas of known cultural sensitivity. The stones I use are small and quite hard. I grind the stones […]
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From 2002 to 2008 I assisted Charlie, my partner, running supported walks on the Larapinta Trail. The trail is 230 k’s long and runs through the heart of the West MacDonnell Ranges. It was a privilege to get to know a tract of remote country so well, to have time to draw it, be drawn in by it, […]
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My studio is the place to be if its too hot, too windy or too cold to work ‘au plein air’. Its a place for doing a myriad of indoor things: painting, dyeing, drawing, assembling things, all at once if I want to. Its light, generous, busy and a repository for the things I can’t throw […]
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My favourite studio is the environment. I like the immediacy it forces upon us as we struggle with changing light, physical discomfort, flies, wind, heat … everything. I typically work outdoors in sketchbooks. The combination of oil pastel and acrylic ink, sometimes called ‘wax resist’ is my preferred medium for the extreme conditions of Central Australia. I like […]
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