about

my story

i was already a working animator my 30s in sydney producing layouts mostly, when i decided to go to art college in wagga to study ceramics

As it turned out i became very interested sculpture installations as well,

articulating space with minimalist materials like sticks poles and rope,

art povera style.

The point was - art as experience - not the creation of precious art objects

right time , right place

two forward looking teachers,

John Penny and Arthur Wicks

had put together a radical first year program to challenge the incoming students and rattle their pre conceptions about what art could be

fresh ideas / new ways of looking at things

i loved it

it shapes my thinking to this day

i owe a lot to some great teachers

john Penny, Arthur Wicks and John Elsegood

in my second year i was lucky enough to score a one man show at

Central st Gallery in Sydney

i just walked in , spoke to the near director , showed him photos of my sculpture installations and he said yes

very aussie naive approach, just give it a go mate ..

that's how it used to be

Later that year i took along my took along my sticks , poles and tape,

and made some installations responding to the gallery space -

art as experience

in my 3rd year James Mollion had a directive to collect work

of promising aussie artists

He visited Riverina College of Advanced Education and at the time i had

the use of a loft to install my work

James Mollisone saw what i was doing, asked to see me, we had a chat

and some weeks later he bought photos of my installations for

the National Gallery, in case i became an artist of note

I did not !

all that momentum stopped when i went back to animation

after i finished the course

Ive never fogotten the experience , kept my interest in art,

and for the past several years ive been exploring images again

lacking a studio i ve gone digital

drawing on a tablet, using xara as a compositor,

vectorising some images to acheive scale

scale gives dramatic presence

my inclination is the same,

what drive me is the dramatic, prioritising art as experience

rather than art as an object

you wil discover my journey includes

illustrative to abstract

first there is the experience of making,

then there is the experience of the viewer

the viewer completes the experience

at that point the job is done

even this site is designed

as an experience

so welcome

you the viewer

complete the experience

congratulations !

you are now part of the art ( smile )

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