2023 is a year full of possibilities, challenges and transitions. This exciting decade is shaping up to be about adaptation, letting go of expectations and embracing change. Below are some of the artworks I have created or resolved in 2023. We live in uncertain times with no concrete future trajectory and I have found that by engaging with my art process as it unfolds, rather than cultivating expectations of anticipated outcomes, has its own unique benefits.
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SIGN OF THE TIMES
Acrylic on Birch Board 90cm Diameter 2023 (AVAILABLE)
An interpretation of an eight sided star symbol that symbolizes chaos or entropy. An appropriate symbol for these times of environmental collapse and rapid transitions.
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FRANCIS AND THE SENTINEL TREE AT THE END OF THE ROAD
Acrylic on Birch Board 90cm Diameter 2023 (AVAILABLE)
A quiet psychological landscape about vanishing insect and birdlife life, the die back of trees and the slowly increasing silence of the Australian bush. It features a symbolic man representative of Saint Francis and a contorted dead tree.
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THE ANTHROPOCENE CAVE
Acrylic Paint on Birch Board 90cm Diameter 2023 (AVAILABLE)
A heavily symbolic painting. A melting glacier, an orange sky, the idiom of yellow canary like bird warning of danger and a rising sea – all speak of the rapidly changing environment in which we will live.
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CHINESE STYLE BOATHOUSE – SEVEN SHILLINGS BEACH
Acrylic Paint on Board 51cm x 51cm 2023 (AVAILABLE)
There are 2 very similar Chinese designed period boathouses located on Sydney Harbour. One is at located at Mosman Bay and the other is at Seven Shillings Beach.
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MURRAY ROSE POOL ON A WINTERS DAY
Acrylic Paint on Birch Board 90cm Diameter 2023 (SOLD)
Formerly known as Redleaf Pool – (ca 1940), this idyllic Sydney eastern suburbs public pool is located on Seven Shillings Beach.
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THE FISHING LICENCE
Collaged Acrylic Paint on Archival Paper on Mount Board 32cm x 28cm 2023 (SOLD)
An image inspired by the dubious sale of the fishing rights of Seven Shillings Beach to a Mrs Busby.
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THE CRAZY OBSESSED FAN FAN CLUB
Repurposed Plastic Fan, Acrylic Paint, Bindi Tikka Ornaments and Fake Jewels 17cm x 27cm 2023 (AVAILABLE)
A humorous creation about celebrity culture and living in a fan obsessed world.
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THE DROWNING
Acrylic Paint on Mount Board 58cm x 46cm 2023 (SOLD)
A psychologically interpretive painting of a drowning tragedy at Murray Rose Pool.
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THE LITTLE SCAMP
Glass Dome, Plaster Ornament, Various Found Objects 8cm x 14cm 2023 (AVAILABLE)
A small found object sculpture created as part of the Lingam Series
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TRANSHUMANISM
Acrylic Paintings on Archival Paper Collaged and mounted on Board 92cm x 48cm 2023 (AVAILABLE)
Transhumanism is the merger of bio tech and infotech. This emerging science and technology combination has the ability to transform and evolve humans to beyond the current physical and mental boundaries. Exciting and scary.
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THE STORYBOOK HOUSES
A Collage created with Acrylic Paint on Sydney Morning Herald Newspaper 87cm x 53cm 2023 (AVAILABLE)
A collaged melange of aspects of Elaine and Fairwater. These trophy homes were previously owned by members of the Fairfax press family.
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ANXIOUS TIMES WW2 1943
Acrylic Paint on found Flotsam Plank 13cm x72cm 2023 (SOLD)
An imaginative painting of Seven Shillings Beach at dusk, post the Japanese 1943 WW2 midget submarine attack on Sydney Harbour.