About
Exploring the boundaries between what is observed, what is imagined and what is hidden or forgotten is central to my work.
Many of my paintings to date have had a Gothic sensibility and are drawn from 18th and 19th century themes and images found in art, poetry, texts and films. At the moment, I am researching the lives of women and children of European 17th - 19th c and early European Settlement. These works will explore the themes of social structures, ownership, oppression, beauty, adornment, memory, displacement and isolation. They include portraits, figures within interiors, landscape, and seascape, still lifes, animals and nudes.
I do commissioned work and also love painting owls.
I work with oil paint, photography, Photoshop, collage, drawing, mixed media and sculptural assemblage.
- 2016 – Recipient of the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize - Juniper Hall
- 2017 – Commissioned by Adderton House of Heart & Mercy - Brisbane
- 2009 – Finalist in The Archibald Prize - AGNSW
- 2005 – Commissioned by Southern Star to create the paintings for the TV series Love My Way
- 2005 – Recipient of the Konica Minolta Art Prize - Mosman Art Gallery
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Featured Works
Scarlett as Colonial Girl - Oil on Linen - Winner Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
The Danger of a Single Story - Finalist in the Mosman Art Prize
A Silence Magnified and Beautiful
2 Figs
The Rest is Silence - Brendan Cowell - Finalist in the Archibald Prize
Echo
Frida Vivid - Collage archival gilclee limited addition print
