About

The idea of an artist statement is something that brings me no joy to compose. It’s a struggle to place the origins of, be it in self-doubt and disgust. Or some blend of both. It’s hard to break from the idea that the very notion just seems either narcissistic, pretentious, and grandiose or imprecise, flaccid, and limiting. The hope that intention might measure up to execution is an optimistic one, and what remains just feels like an attempt at over-intellectualizing a feeling. But fighting against an intangible conceptual nothing over and over just seems pointless now. So here we go. Let’s hand ourselves over to the nothing...

 

I am a painter and illustrator creating from my home studio on Gadigal country (Sydney, Australia). I work with a range of mediums primarily oil and acrylic, incorporating different media and found materials in various ways. I aim to re-purpose discarded house paints and other refuse forms of medium in an attempt to create as sustainably as possible. I use a layered, frenetic technique in application favouring an assault of knives and scrappers to brushes.

 

My art focuses on the nexus between human psychology and the physical world, combining expressionism, symbolism, and language. Each work is an attempt to represent the entanglement of human consciousness, the pooling, burying, and surfacing of emotion and memory. I paint to try to better connect my inner contaminants to those of the world, to find some inner peace amidst the collective insecurity of fear, love, hope, and loss.

 

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