LaTrobe University, Bendigo, Victoria. Mar 24th 2011 – May 1st 2011 Installation view 2011
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RESONANCE 2014 – 16
Maroondah Regional Gallery, 31 July – 6 Sept 2014.Langford 120 Gallery, 31st May – 28th June 2014.Spot 81 Gallery Sydney, 17 June – 5 July 2015.Glasshouse Regional Gallery, Port Macquarie, Jan 22 – Mar 6 2016. Installation view
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LYRICAL ABSTRACTION WORKS
Throughout much of the 1970s I had been developing painting ideas in an abstract mode, where I used colour in an emotional and expressive manner. These works used mainly large more fluid colour expanses that were punctuated with various colour notes and chords around the idea of the landscape and the sea; but only as […]
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POUSSIN SERIES
This series was based on Nicholas Poussin’s painting, “The Adoration of the Shepherds” 1637. The works that I did were not ‘quotations’ but rather, investigations of that painting searching out the formal and abstract elements as a renegotiation of the composition.Some 100 or so works, (oils on canvases, acrylics on paper and drawings) were the […]
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Melbourne Series
This group of works began initially around the middle of 1986 and has continued at various times right up to the present.With the Yarra River, Princes Bridge, Flinders Railway Station, the Concert Hall and the Arts Centre, there has been much to occupy my desire to continually make an iconic statement about Melbourne.My main area […]
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St Kilda
Subject matter is the point of departure. It is the initial inspiration and recognition of its possibility for painting; an element that is formally expanded upon and reinvented to probe its emotional and subconscious aspects. By emancipating the ‘idea’ from the image, I can give a formal and gestural expansion of one part as it […]