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I PAINT THE THINGS I CAN'T STOP THINKING ABOUT
Why do we perform?
Why do we believe what we believe?
How much of who we are is actually ours?
And why are human beings so wonderfully contradictory?
My work begins with questions like these.
Through portraiture and figurative painting, I explore human behaviour, identity, perception and the peculiar stories we build around ourselves.
I’m less interested in providing answers than making work that causes you to stop, look twice, and perhaps leave with a different question than the one you arrived with.
Art should do more than match the couch.
I make work for people who want something on their walls worth looking at — and worth talking about.
For the readers, thinkers, questioners and observers. For people fascinated by psychology, philosophy, culture and the oddness of being alive.
The work doesn't need to tell you what to think.
I'd rather it give you something to think about.
SEE THE WORK IN PERSON
Paintings are only part of the experience.
Throughout the year, my work appears in exhibitions, unusual spaces and projects that invite people to look a little longer and question what they think they're seeing.
From portraiture and figurative exhibitions to The Human Circus — my upcoming exploration of the performances, contradictions and absurdities of human behaviour — each body of work begins with something I've noticed and couldn't leave alone.
CURRENT & UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
QUI REGARDE - Milledges Distillery, Port Adelaide, 1st August - 27th September
HUMAN STUDIES - Ascot Gallery, Kadina, 7th October - 6th November
Collecting, Commissions, and Enquiries
Original paintings are available for collectors who want art with presence, work that rewards looking, reveals itself slowly and doesn't explain everything at once.
Available works range from intimate works on paper to larger statement paintings, with selected pieces also available as limited prints.
A small number of portrait commissions are accepted throughout the year.
I NOTICE...
I'm endlessly curious about why we do what we do.
Every so often, I send out something I've noticed — about art, psychology, philosophy, human behaviour, or the strange business of being a person.
Sometimes there's a painting attached.
Sometimes there's just a question I can't leave alone.
Join me.