1/24 Wellington Street, Waterloo, NSW 2017

Thrive copper, burnt branch, 77 x 120 x 15 cm
The work in this exhibition is both a celebration of landscape, and a lament of the way humanity treats the natural world.
Results of bushfires are visually fascinating despite the devastation. Textures and colours found in the aftermath, and the signs of regeneration rising from the ashes have been influential in the making of these sculptures. The play of leaves in branches, scars and stains on bark, the texture of burnt wood represented here pay homage to the environment.
The contrast of new growth and burnt vegetation is shown in the materials used. These include recycled copper fashioned into twigs and leaves, discarded grapevines, spent gum nuts, remnants of burnt wood from the forest floor, all of which represent nature; and found materials such as an old WARNING sign, hat blocks and shoe lasts.

EVOLVE 2022 Copper & hat block 30 x 19 x 165 cm
LANDSCAPE in SCULPTURE
Beaver Galleries, ACT 14-31 October 2021
 Sugarloaf Tree – 2020 – copper on corten steel base – 170 x 90 x 90 cm
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 STICKBAG TREE Copper on corten base 200 x 80 x 104cm
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 PHOENIX TREE Copper & corten steel 168 x 115 x 60cm
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 CURVEDGE Grape vine, copper, marble 40 x 12 x 7cm
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 WOVEN SOLACE Copper 34 x 34 x 34cm
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 TRUNCATED Copper 48 x 30 x 30cm
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 SPRING BLIP Copper 41 x 20 x 20cm
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 FOOL ON THE HILL Copper, brass 35 x 20 x 20cm
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 EPI-CACOPHONOUS Copper 34 x 34 x 34cm
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 FROM THE ASHES Copper & corten steel 95 x 65 x 75cm
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 NASCENT WEIGHT Grapevine, copper, iron weight 51 x 17 x 17cm
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 WHEEDLE VINE Grapevine, copper 19 x 60 x 18cm
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 KNOBBY CIRCLET Grapevine, copper 66 x 52 x 16cm
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The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”
― William Blake
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REACH at the ninth Western Sydney University Sculpture Award and Exhibition 7 May – 6 June 2021

REACH at WSU 2021
REACH is a sculpture made from copper and corten steel representing vegetation emerging from rocky outcrops as often seen in arid areas of Australia. The resilience of the trees growing from barren rocks is one of the miracles of nature. The work is not a realistic depiction, rather an interpretation of the stark contrast between the hard dry rocks and the fleshy green vegetation sprouting from them.
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 Kimberley grass & boulders
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 Kimberley grass & boulders
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 Japanese grass fields
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 REACH Sketch
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 REACH charcoal sketch
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 REACH in progress
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 REACH in progress
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 REACH in progress
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 Reach grass in progress – April 2020
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 REACH – steel boulders & grass
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 Reach on the move
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 Reach setup — May 2021
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 Reach setup — May 2021
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 REACH at WSU 2021
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 REACH at WSU 2021
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 REACH – view to WSU lake
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 REACH at WSU 2021
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 REACH grass & view of WSU lake
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 REACH, detail
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 REACH, detail
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