Galleries
The Book of Creation
Artist's Statement 2017 To symbolically suggest a sense of spirituality, time, movement and flux in my work, I have created works in series of seven. The number seven is a particularly meaningful number for folkloric research. One implication is that it connotes the...
Under Mount Bogong
Artist's Statement The painterly relief print process is related closely to painting as well as displaying the graphic qualities of relief printing. The plate is prepared by carving the design into a piece of MDF board and attaching the coloured paper to the top of...
Inscript
Inscript: Altered Books Artist's Statement Concepts explored in my altered books: Concept of recycling – transforming old used books into artworks. The paper from some of these books would have come from rainforest trees – now rare or extinct. Book as object – the...
Sacred Land
Artist's Statement – August 2010 “Only by remaking and restoring the sacred can we achieve individual and collective health, since the sacred stands at the very heart of humanity, and if it is repressed or ignored humanity must suffer.” The sacred is a basic category...
Prayer Mats
100 prayer mats for gaia Artist's Statement Each prayer mat is consecutively numbered and dated on the back at the commencement of the work. The project started in 1998 and was completed 2000. The execution of these works was a personal journey and ritual where the...
The Seven Books of Tears
Artist's Statement I have used the format of ‘artists books’ (Artists books without an apostrophe has become the standard name for this activity) as they require the physical interaction of the viewer on an intimate and personal level and they can only be viewed by...
Earth Prints
Artist's Statement I have used printmaking as a primary method for the creation of images based on land/environment. It is a collaboration and a synthesis of artist, process, subject matter, emotion, materials, techniques and nature. The preparation of plates,...
243 Meditations
Artist's Statement I was working with the numbers 3 and 9. They were to be presented in 9 columns with 3 in each row, consecutively numbered, and nine columns. When you add 243 this equals nine. The process began with the initial idea of size and final amount of work....
Light & Dark
Artist's Statement Light and Dark Night and Day Dark places Light spaces Physical Psychological Perception Intuition I am interested in the flux, energy, rhythms, textures, forms and movements of nature throughout time. The landscape belongs to the world of time and...
Journey Out of Nothing
a journey out of nothing Artist's Statement This is a series of work inspired by the poems of my niece Ashlea Cook. They deal with the emotions and trauma she went through when her parents divorced and feelings of rejection and betrayal inflicted on her by her father....
7 Rocks
Artist's Statement 2016 – 2017 Stones and rocks have always had a fascination for me and I have used this imagery repeatedly in my work. Stones had a highly symbolic meaning for ancient societies. Carl Jung noted that “rough, natural stones were often believed to be...
Long Collagraphs
Earth Spirit Artist's Statement – January 2014 Materials, textures and fibres are collected from the environment to create the collagraph plates. Leaves, feathers, bark, grasses, sand and even spiders and insects are arranged and glued down to a cardboard plate. I...