Australia
A landscape and figurative artist whose creative practice consists of oil painting, photo-manipulation based digital art and video.
Artworks: 4
A landscape and figurative artist whose creative practice consists of oil painting, photo-manipulation based digital art and video.
Born in country Queensland and have participated in group and solo shows in
Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, New York and Paris. Works are held in private,
public and corporate art collections in Australia and overseas, including Perpetual Trustees,
Sydney; a large canvas titled ‘Christmas Eve’, now held in a private collection in Melbourne,
formerly hung at the Crown Casino.
Began art studies under Frank De Silva at the Royal Queensland Art Society in Brisbane,
1980. Attended the Queensland College of Art, 1981-82.
On leaving art college, worked for many years as a graphic artist in the printing industry. A supporter of and did volunteer illustration and graphic art work for the Antarctic Protection Society.
In 1994, met the New York artist and gallery director, Tim Slowinski, who arranged his first
solo exhibition.
First Australian solo exhibition was at Soho Galleries, Sydney in 1996 and exhibited there on a regular basis over the following years.
A finalist in the Glover Prize in 2012, one of Australia’s most significant awards for
landscape painting. A semi-finalist in the 2013 and 2015 Doug Moran National Portrait
Prizes.
In 2015, his video art submissions were included in both the Seattle Erotic Art Festival and the Rochester Erotic Arts Digital Show.
Now paints in solitude at his Gympie studio, preferring to work in oils on Belgian linen. In recent years his interest has gradually shifted from the landscape to the female nude and portraiture.
Artist Statement
My art is inspired first and foremost by what I see, feel and experience. I explore the female form, painting in a style that is free and intuitive. Backgrounds are only important as blank backdrops, allowing the focus of attention to remain fixed on the nude. Colour is used to embellish, in the sense of adding to the aesthetic or emotional density of the composition.
Solo Exhibitions
2018 LANDSCAPES, Courthouse Gallery, Gin Gin
2015 RECENT NUDES, Soho Galleries, Sydney
2013 COLOURSCAPES, Gallery V, Sydney
2005 INSTINCT, Gardner Galleries, Melbourne
2004 OBSESSIONS, Soho Galleries, Sydney
2003 SMALL VISTAS, Soho Galleries, Sydney
1998 IMPRESSIONS, Soho Galleries, Sydney
1997 COLOURING, Soho Galleries, Sydney
1996 PANORAMAS, Soho Galleries, Sydney
1995 LANDMARKS, Gallery 331, Brisbane
1994 AUSTRALIAN COLLECTION, Limner Gallery, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017 Soho Galleries, Sydney
2015 Erotic Art Festival, Seattle
Erotic Arts Digital Show, Rochester
2014 Norvill Prize Finalists Exhibition, Murrurundi
2012 Glover Prize Finalists Exhibition, Evandale
2010 Norvill Prize Finalists Exhibition, Murrurundi
2003 Greenhill Galleries, Adelaide
New England Regional Art Gallery, Armidale
2002 Limner Gallery, New York
New England Regional Art Gallery, Armidale
1999 Soho Galleries, Sydney
1998 Tattersall’s Invitational Art Prize, Brisbane
Art Images Gallery, Adelaide
Art Associates, Melbourne
1997 AUSTRALIAN IN PARIS, Miromesnil Fine Art, Paris
1996 Art Images Gallery, Adelaide
1995 SALON DES REFUSES, S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Kirkcaldy Davies Gallery, Melbourne
1990 Kimberley Art Gallery, Brisbane
1988 Australian Bicentennial Art Prize Finalists Exhibition, School of Arts, Brisbane
1985 Jim Edwards & Friends At The White House, Brisbane
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