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  • I was recently invited to perform All Creation for the Cementa 13 art festival in Kandos, NSW. My performance was accompanied by text explaining the work:

    As a Christian artist I draw my identity as a creator from God in whose image I was created. I believe that the true purpose of art is the same as God’s purpose for creation, to bring glory to His name. ‘All Creation’ is the next step in a series of works exploring this idea through geometric abstraction. The work consists of five limestone sculptures of the platonic solids, originally named for Plato who wrote about these shapes and their connection to the elements of the natural world and to the heavens.

    The use of geometry in my work relates to the philosophy of Pythagoras which states that God created the universe after geometric and harmonic principles and thus to seek these principles is to seek and worship God. It is also a reference to ... Read more

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Eat Your Art Out

My work Eat, and live forever was recently exhibited in Eat Your Art Out at Articulate. It was accompanied by text explaining the work: In Greek mythology, golden apples were said to be found in the garden of the Hesperides belonging to the goddess Hera. These apples granted immortality to any who ate them, but … Read more

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Alchemical Abstraction

I’m having a solo show at SNO: Alchemical Abstraction The opening is on Thursday, March 29 (from 6 – 8 pm) and the show runs until April 29th. The address is Level 1, 175 Marrickville Rd, Marrickville. I’d love for you to come along and check it out. The use and study of sacred geometry … Read more

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Free Fall

I was recently invited to perform ‘Shekinah Glory‘ in the glass cube, at The Oxford Art Factory, over two nights for their Free Fall program. It was accompanied by text (which I have since expanded upon) explaining the work: For this performance I stood in a glass cube, surrounded by smoke, with my face covered … Read more

EX VOTO: Joseph Beuys

I’m curating a group show for INDEX EX VOTO: Joseph Beuys The opening is on Saturday, September 10 (from 2 – 4pm) and the show runs until September 24th. The address is 60 Hutchinson St, St. Peters. We’d love for you to come along and check it out. EX VOTO is a Mexican folk tradition … Read more

Conceptual Limitations

When I was in my first year of undergrad studies at Sydney College of the Arts one of my favourite classes was Studio Concepts. Studio Concepts was not a studio theory class where students learn about the conceptual history of their discipline, and it was not a studio practical class where students learn the specific … Read more

Articulation

I was recently invited to spend two weeks working in the Articulate project space with the aim of producing work that responded to the site. I spent three days and nights in the space performing my new work Ruach. I have found this work particularly difficult to write about and take comfort in the words … Read more

Small Words

My work Strange Bedfellows was recently exhibited in Small Works for a Large Universe at INDEX. It was accompanied by text explaining the work: In my first year at SCA I worked with the bed as a metaphor for private and intimate spaces, be they mental, emotional or psychological. My lecturer at the time, Margaret … Read more

Intra-section

My work, Chashmal, was recently exhibited in Intersections for At The Vanishing Point. Due to the curatorial premise of the show individual artists’s statements were not included in the exhibition, but I would like to share an excerpt from my proposal of this work to the curator of Intersections, Adrian Clement: The work I am … Read more

Small Works For A Large Universe

I have a work in a group show! Small Works For A Large Universe The opening is on Friday, February 4 (from 6 – 8pm) at INDEX. The address is 60 Hutchin­son St, St. Peters. The show runs from 4 – 19 February, I’d love for you to come along and check it out. “An … Read more

Intersections

I have a work in a group show! Intersections The opening is on Friday, February 4 (from 6 – 9pm) at At The Vanishing Point. The address is 565 King St, Newtown. The show runs from 4 – 20 February, I’d love for you to come along and check it out. “What measures are taken … Read more

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