Just a few shots of the exhibition now showing at Albert Kerston MIning and Minerals Museum at Broken Hill until November 11

We will be back in Broken Hill this week to hang the show and be in attendance at the opening next Friday evening at 6pm.

It will be exciting to return to The Hill and show our work at the Broken Hill Mining and Minerals Museum and reconnect with friends and see the amazing landscape west of the Darling River.

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Some small works finished last week are now at Essential Object in Tathra. These are acrylic on canvas and measure 10″ high x 8″ wide. They sit quite comfortably next to the large work ‘nothingness’ (1.5 metres high x 1.2 metres wide) in the gallery. This photo was taken by Poppy Benton from Essential Object.

There is now a link to the Australian Centre for the Moving Image website with the 15 Second Place Project.

My video projection from last year’s video projection ‘echo Nacht – night Echoes’ was chosen to be a part of this project about place.

Check it out if you get the chance. Just click on the link below.

ACMI iPhone App

When you are in that in between period of limbo where no shows are booked and a residency is about to happen it is a just the perfect time to explore new possibilities by letting yourself loose in the studio and exploring the stuff of nothing in particular by just allowing the paint to flow through you.

The work is all about nothing and a search for everything at the same time. The detail above is part of a series of large works on canvas exploring this theme. Layer upon layer of paint has been placed onto the canvas in an abstract gestural manner with a build up of interesting textures and marks on a collage of canvas on canvas – then paint scraped back, rubbed into, painted over, scratched into, glazed over then drawn over the top of the subtle limited pallete with a marker.

Twelve more works are in the studio drying right now ranging from small to medium works. One large work is now finished. Long days in the studio but it has been an interesting interlude of work for me.

The river maps have been ongoing since The Hill show earlier this year.

Still drawing inspiration from the Darling River I have been working on a series of smaller works and some lengths of silk as well.

The works on paper have a much more earthy feel shown above with the piece below titled ‘Along the River’ (h) 25cm x (w) 115cm . This piece is a reminder of an afternoon spent along the banks of the river. These works are currently on display at Essential Object in Tathra.

This work above is the first in a series of river map scrolls – ink on german etching and hand stitched with jute. They follow the ‘Flow’ scrolls from The Hill exhibition and measure (w) 380mm x (h) 105mm with blackwood hangers. Below is a detail showing the blackwood hangers and details of drawing with ink and stitching.

The silk series are hand painted onto gumma silk with ink and food colouring with pebbles and river silt delicately placed along the edge of the shape of the river to form subtle marks that echo watermarks. These works are in the process of being stitched together as a series of three scrolls measuring (w) 300mm x (h) 3.5metres for a show called ‘Creative Alchemy’ opening at Belconnen Arts Centre in September.

To coincide with the winter solstice Mark Bellringer has put together this exciting Film Festival with a series of short films by New Zealand Film makers plus one Australian – that’s me – to be viewed in Eltham on the north island. I have been very fortunate to have been selected to show an extended version of ‘echo Nacht – night Echoes’ during the Festival at the Eltham Town Hall Saturday 25th June at 7pm.

My storyboard will be also on display in a show titled ‘Screens, Stills and Storyboards’ at the PTO Gallery in Eltham. The work will be on display at the gallery from 24thJune – 18th July > Opening June 25th at 5pm

Artist Statement

‘red moon over the hill’ > mixed media on german etching 2010

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During 2009 and 2010 I visited the Far West of NSW and was inspired by the colour, light and the shapes of the industrial landscape in Broken Hill. This work tries to capture the memory of the full moon standing on the Line of Lode at sunset where old mines still stand as a memory of bygone days.

My mixed media works speak about a sense of time and place. Where fragments of past and present merge together seeking answers by revealing an intimate glimpse in a layered landscape – physically and metaphorically.