Devonport Regional Gallery, Solo Commission

Bett Gallery, Hobart

Artist Statement

In my studio, there is a large table with a pile of ill-printed photographs; they have been drawn on, ripped up, some photocopied into black and white and drawn on again. They aren’t in chronological or geographical order. They are of places I've spent time in and are embedded with recollection and reverie, but now, in my studio, these images reworked, re-felt, and reimagined into collages, become something else. A portal into an imagined realm. Holding these little worlds in my hand, they seem tantalisingly real. And yet, they are also a passage through reality, time, and emotion. They offer clarity and an enigma. And so, I paint to elucidate a certain feeling or atmosphere - describing the space between becoming and dissolving, intimacy and distance, presence and absence. Recomposing familiar landscapes into descriptions of the slow transition of time, one moment to the next, overlapping and turning back on itself.  The strange mixed—up continuum of life, an everchanging, incomplete collection of atmospheres.