Here are my works that are featured at the Winter Arts Festival Canvas Co-op pop up gallery (goodness, that’s quite a mouthful). It’s interesting seeing them on such an irregular wall, rather than the usual clean white gallery.
The exhibition started on the 18 August at 192 Williams St, it’s right on the corner by the State Theatre.
You can see all the details here.

I was recently interviewed by Andrei Buters for One Perth about my exhibition “Death of the Party”.
You can read the whole interview over here, where I discuss my thoughts on the body of work, as well as contemporary portraiture.

I was lucky enough to be selected to be a part of the 2012 Mandorla Art Award. This years theme was ‘Born of a Woman’.

My most recent body of work has focused on entering into a critical engagement with the feelings and emotions I have towards my current home of Perth, my family home, and the home I make in the studio. I have been using the nest as a metaphor for these current creative homes, that are nurturing but which for me, are also about loss. This work for the Mandorla Art Award has been an extension on these thoughts with a more specific imagining of the body of a woman being a distant home for all of us. While making this work which is a portrait of my son and myself, I found I was thinking a lot about my Mexican and English grandmothers who lived in very different countries and yet shared a strong belief in their religions.

The exhibition is currently on at the Perth Town Hall and will be there until the 19th of August. It will then tour to New Norcia Museum and Art Gallery.

This Sunday, the 19th of August there will be a seminar held at the exhibition titled “Imagining Women: The Christian Tradition” which will explore the works and the role of the feminine in imagining the divine.

As a part of the Winter Arts Festival my work will be featured along side Kyle Hughes-Odgers (aka Creepy) and Matthew Hunt in a pop up gallery. The three of us are appearing as a part of Turner Galleries contribution to the exhibition, and there will also be artists from OK Gallery, Kurb and Outre Gallery.

The exhibition starts on 18 August at midday at 192 Williams St, it’s right on the corner by the State Theatre.
You can see all the details here.

After a whirlwind trip last weekend to pick up my hand-carved wooden frames, it was all going a bit too smoothly so I wasn’t too surprised that it turns out they are all a bit wonky! Special thanks though to Nick Mahoney for saving them so far- hope it all continues to work out this week as they are for the purple triptych of my family and I really want to use the milkpaint and beeswax on them, and I really don’t know what else I would do. Fingers crossed.

Sometimes after a day in the studio I walk away and it looks like I didn’t even get anything done. Today was one of those days until I saw proof (on my crappy camera phone-sorry) of this portrait in progress. It shows that, I did in actual fact, get somewhere today.
I am looking forward to painting in the nest on his head tomorrow and fixing up a few things. x

Feeling really lucky to have the time and space to make these works, am really excited about starting the portrait of my son this week with a little nest on his head. x

I can’t believe how traumatic but at the same time nourishing that this study has been. I feel like I spent most of last year in an academic bubble as I slogged through all the writing. Looking back through my photos though (in order to post theses studio developments), I realised I did do a lot of other special things especially with my family.
These pics are from my studio, showing the latest work for an exhibition that will be opening on the 13th April at Turner Gallery in Perth WA. I have also put pictures up of my trip to get custom frames made for my paintings. I will be picking them up in March, fingers crossed they turn out ok
Also in this post is a picture of a beautiful nest my partner found in New Zealand and a childs chair made out of a whales bone from the Auckland museum.

Although working in our bedroom was ok, going back to uni meant having a STUDIO SPACE! I am doing honours which is ridiculously time consuming and hard but I am also extremely lucky to have the amazing painter Greg Pryor as my supervisor.

Works from the Elements group show ‘Beauties and Beasts’. All are now sold so thank you Elements Gallery.