Snagged sketch

“Snagged” Pencil on paper 28 x 38 cm My preliminary drawing for the painting that I made called “Snagged” (see painting here). This work is about being so obsessed with someone that you can’t give them their freedom.

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Creation

“Creation” Pencil on paper 30 x 40 cm 2007 A drawing for the most sacred and amazing of creations, your own child. My son was still very small when I made this. It is all about giving yourself up, your heart […]

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Surrounded

“Surrounded” Pencil on Paper 10 x 15 cm 2001 I was an early adopter of the internet and 3D software programs. I spent hours drawing out coordinate systems on graph paper, plotting out an object to be translated into 3D. […]

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Grounded

“Grounded” Pencil on paper 2001 A drawing I did before leaving Australia (you can tell from the Australian electrical plug). At this time I was making a lot of work on evolution and how science and technology would influence our […]

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City

“City Life” Pencil on paper 30 x 40 cm The original sketch that I made for the painting of the same title (see painting here). About the energy of life in the city.

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Suckers

“Suckers” Pencil on paper 60 x 72 cm A large drawing where I was experimenting with what my Sucker City world might look like.

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Scavenge 2

“Scavenge”, the top half of  the diptych pencil on paper 60 x 76 cm 2001 In this top half of Scavenge (see the bottom part here) I focused on the suckers. These are the kind of fleshy, earthy growths that […]

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Scavenge

“Scavenge” Pencil on paper 60 x 76 cm 2001 This is the bottom half of a diptych. Here is what the two pictures look like together. At the time I was working in an animation studio. I was very interested in story […]

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Elizabeth Woolcock

Elizabeth WoolcockPencil on paper38 x 30 cm 2013Elizabeth Woolcock was hung in Adelaide in 1873. Her life was full of trauma. As a child she witnessed the violent events of the Eureka Stockade including the extremely brutal murder of her […]

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Shameful Australia

You might know that I’m an Australian (although I don’t live there right now). Since I have moved away I have become more interested in some of the murky aspects of my countries past. I think that the history of Australia, particularly […]

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