About

INTRODUCTION

Over recent years, my art has focused on an exploration of the different meanings associated with the idea of the voyage: the voyage in the sense of personal/autobiographical journeying, and the voyage in terms of geographical voyaging.

CURRENT PROJECTS

1. HILL END
During my residency at the Haefligers cottage, Hill End in New South Wales, I developed a series of works representing the very specific landscape and its stratification:
Picket fences framing empty block of lands standing as sentinels guarding a past history; gum trees, cut to build the town, are now reclaiming the land and sharing the space with left over traces of the gold diggers.

2. PASSING BY THE TREE
“I feel that there is much to be said for the Celtic belief that the souls of those whom we have lost are held captive in some inferior being, in an animal, in a plant, in some inanimate object, and so effectively lost to us until the day (which to many never comes) when we happen to pass by the tree or to obtain possession of the object which forms their prison. Then they start and tremble, they call us by our name, and as soon as we have recognised their voice the spell is broken. We have delivered them: they have overcome death and return to share our life.”  Marcel Proust
Reflecting the spirit of Proust’s quotation above, this project is an evocation of the cycle of life. With objects and places as a mean to trigger memory, I am developing a diary of my time spent with my aunt who remembers very little of the past and to visit her is like entering another world. I am learning another language, other way of looking at the space surrounding us. When I see her or think of her I attach images which will, to use Proust’s expression, “break the spell”. I am recording our days together, and the memory of the days, past and present.

3. INDIA
Following my travel to Udaipur, India, I am currently developing a series of drawings influenced by the "Jali" (screens made from stone, and carved in delicate, intricate and symmetrical geometrical patterns).
While in India, I became fascinated by the representation of botanical specimens in the architecture of Rajasthan. Inspired by the decorative elements, I am also working on a series of drawings of imaginary plants that purport to be botanical specimens.