Awards and Prize Finalists
A conversation of trees, 2022, photogravure on Somerset Satin.
Finalist Milburn Art Prize for Landscape 2023
Artists statement: This constructed image, from multiple originals reflects on the nature of memory and imagination in the landscape tradition. Combining several manual and digital processes, including photographic and painted layers, it makes explicit the persistent trace of the human hand in the ‘natural’ in the age of the Anthropocene.
Breath, 2022, Photogravure on Somerset Satin
Finalist Tacit Still Life Prize 2022
(De) Composition - a dark ecology, 2023, digital print on archival cotton rag on aluminium
Finalist Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize 2023
Artist statement: My (De)Composition series reimagines landscape & still life traditions, investigating what philosopher Timothy Morton calls "a dark ecology": the continuous intersection of the beautiful, monstrous and mysterious in the age of the Anthropocene. The image is composed of multiple original photographs of foliage & painted textures layered digitally to create an abstract landscape. This process makes explicit the persistent trace of the human hand in the ‘natural’ in our precarious times
Through a glass, 2022, digital print on cotton rag
Second Prize Jack Wilkins Experimental Photography Prize 2022
Self portrait - remembrance of things past and omens of things to come, 2023, digital print on archival cotton rag on aluminium
Finalist Olive Cotton Prize 2023
Artist Statement: This piece reimagines a self-portrait originally used in an early series with old master imagery as a response to the then evolving HIV epidemic. Work from this series was featured in a number of significant shows including the NGA’s Art in the age of AIDS. My current work explores abstracted variations on landscape and still life traditions, from microscopic views of foliage to the contours of mapped country, exploring our troublesome representation of ‘nature’, all at once beautiful, monstrous and mysterious. In the earlier work my body, in the context of Christian sacrificial imagery, stood in for the wound of HIV; in this image the marked almost obliterated body bleeds into the endangered forest inseparable in the age of the Anthropocene.