2015

Catalogue / Memoir
Introduction Pictures Objects Animations

PICTURES are both finished and ephemeral works made for animations.

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Lost gift

I wanted to champion Malcolm Turnbull in his vision for a more intelligent, creative nation and to promote the philanthropy that he models personally and promotes in the community. The gift I prepared for Malcolm Turnbull, and handed to people in his entourage, as instructed, was mysteriously lost.

Tom Roberts first artist's money and note
Passed down to me by my father
Gifted for Malcolm Turnbull
Then lost, or stolen?

Watery calligraphy

2015 dancers for Andrew 01
Black ink drawing on paper.
Andrew Constable collection, Lutruwita

2015 dancers for Andrew 02
Black ink drawing on paper.
Andrew Constable collection, Lutruwita

2015 dancers for Andrew 03
Black ink drawing on paper.
Andrew Constable collection, Lutruwita

2015 dancers for Andrew 04
Black ink drawing on paper.
Andrew Constable collection, Lutruwita

2015 dancers for Andrew 05
Black ink drawing on paper.
Andrew Constable collection, Lutruwita

2015 dancers for Andrew 06
Black ink drawing on paper.
Andrew Constable collection, Lutruwita

Darling Harbour Phytoplankton
Microscopy: Sue Fenech

Scientist Sue Fenech takes me to a pier on Darling Harbour not far from UTS. We throw nets into the water and catch phytoplankton. Back in the lab we look through microscopes and I draw our catch. Later I combine these with tracings I make of smaller forms recorded by scientists using more powerful instruments. This project evolves to become the large canvas (1210mm x 1213mm), Oceanic Bliss: Seagrass Meadow Dreaming.

2015 Oceanic Bliss
Painting in progress for animation

I frame and label A5-sized drawings I made while looking down microscopes at lichen that I found during a 2013 science field trip in New South Wales. To me their forms are like the dancers and musicians I see performing at Folk Festivals.

Lichen 18. black ink drawing
Artist's collection Sydney