April 2026

As you can see I was very pleased to meet up with the cheerfully defiant Bob Brown to discuss a commission for the property Bob gifted to Bush Heritage at Liffey Valley, Oura Oura.

This property was the birth place of environmental activism, Blockading the Franklin River and preventing the daming of it, Wilderness centre, Green party and so much more. Visiting the property now feels very much like visiting a sacred place.

Any one with a love for the amazing diversity of flora and the fauna that that supports can’t help but love Bob and his dedication when keeping up the fight on behalf of nature.

My sculpture will comprise of handmade ceramic tiles which come out of my plaster molds. These ceramic impressions represent the flora which is found in the vicinity and of the bushland that the birds rely on to live and thrive, even ceramic Permian shell fossils like that Bob has seen at the property.

Oura Oura is an indigenous name for the Yellow Tailed Black Cockatoo evocative of its call in the Australian bush, I can imagine this haunting call ringing out around Drys Bluff/Taytitikithika and it is below this stunning backdrop my sculpture will rest on the banks of the Liffey River.

I’m pictured here with a 50% scale version of the piece I am making at present for Bob. Better get back to it.

december 2024

A year and a half ago I committed to holding a solo exhibition thinking that that would be plenty of time prepare myself.  Life has a way of never going as planned and now two days away from opening day I am feeling nervously like I would like another six months to be ready.

The exhibition is at Social Gallery which is a part of the Salamanca Arts Centre on the Hobart waterfront.  I will insert photos of the gallery once everything is installed.

These three creatures, past and present are destined for the exhibition,  they have been keeping us company living in our lounge room for the last few months.

January 2024

Even though the studio doesn’t seem any tidier, I’m very pleased to have almost completed my most recent commission and can’t wait to see what Athena will look like in her final resting place. It has been an interesting project for me making this large piece, as it will be viewed from a distance I haven’t used my handmade ceramic tiles but used Bizassa tiles with a variety of different reflective and non-reflective surfaces.

The countdown is on for installation on the 31st January, 2024

2020, an amazing and unsettling year so far.  The terrible ravages of fire, the unknowable Covid, reflection on life and family, and of creativity.  After completing work for my solo exhibition and a group show, both opening the same weekend in October, I hope now that our borders are opening, to connect with family and friends, while thinking of what next for me in the studio.

Maybe clean the studio up…….