It's the end of the year as we know it

Hello, as 2024 says cya later I just wanted to say thanks so much for all your support this year!

It's been a biggie for me, with a solo show at MARS Gallery and painting my largest mural at Shepparton Art Museum, as well as being a finalist in the Sulman Prize, the Bayside Painting Prize, the Deakin Contemporary Small Sculpture Award, and the Darebin Art Prize, to name a few.

I'm feeling super grateful to have had the opportunity to work with so many inspiring galleries, curators, foundries, artists and collectors, and to get to share it all here with you.

And in some nice news to wrap up the year, my piece in the Geelong Contemporary Art Prize was the recipient of the People's Choice Award!

Discarded Shopping List (Cold meat, lettuce, bread)
120cm x 120cm
Enamel and Synthetic Polymer Paint on Aluminium
2024
Photo by Hails and Shine

Kicking off the new year, I'll be showing a couple of works with MARS Gallery in the Quarantine Art Fair, from January 8th to 11th. For more info click here!

Hava Heart
Glazed Earthenware
13.5cm x 8.8cm x 2.5cm
AP2 of edition of 3 plus 2AP's
Framed
2023

If you find yourself in Townsville this summer you can see my work included in the fantastic group exhibition Yucky Yum Yum, presented at Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, on now until March 9.

Banner in front of the Perc Tucker Regional Gallery featuring my ceramic Bubble'O Bill sculpture.

To coincide with the exhibition, I'll be hosting a series of fun drawing workshops during January. Come along if you're in Townsville, for more info click here!

Photo by Emmy Clifton

And if you happen to be near Shepparton, be sure to head in to the Shepparton Art Museum where you can find my work Can You Peel The Love Tonight, on now until March 24.

To read more about this work click here!

Photo by Emmy Clifton

Thanks so much again, wishing you all the very best for 2025 and look forward to seeing you soon!

All Shapes and sizes

Hi, hope you're having a nice day!

Here's a photo of my artwork titled Tomatoes. This piece was featured in my recent solo show at MARS Gallery, and is now hanging in its wonderful new home. It's always so special getting to see where my works end up.

Tomatoes
120cm x 120cm
Enamel and synthetic polymer paint on enamel
2024
Photo by Angela Westcott

In other news, I'm so pleased to invite you to a couple of group shows featuring my work. First up is an exhibition titled Word Up! Art, Text and Design which is on now until February 13 at the Margaret Whitlam Galleries in Western Sydney University. For more info click here!

My work in the show is this ceramic sculpture titled One Step Forward Ten Steps Back (The Daily Dance). 

One Step Forward Ten Steps Back (The Daily Dance)
41cm x 31cm x 3cm
Synthetic polymer paint on ceramic
2023

To accompany the exhibition, I was recently invited to come to Sydney to give a talk about my work at Western Sydney Uni. Huge thanks to the exhibition curator Margaret Hancock for organising the event, and to all the students who came along to hear me speak. Here's a couple of photos from the day.

Photo by Sally Tsoutas at University of Western Sydney

Photo with curator Margaret Hancock and Dr. Leo Robba, by Sally Tsoutas at University of Western Sydney

The other exhibition I'd love to share with you is titled Dusk of Nations, on now until December 14 at the UQ Art Museum in the University of Queensland. 

My work in this show is titled Every Kind of Shape, it's a series I made in 2019 in which I made a ceramic sculpture of every flavour of Arnott's Shapes that was available at the time.

Every Kind of Shape
Acrylic on ceramic 
2019
Courtesy of the University of Queensland art collection
Photo by Joe Ruckli

In exciting news, Every Kind of Shape has been acquired into the University of Queensland art collection. 

Every Kind of Shape
Acrylic on ceramic 
2019
Courtesy of the University of Queensland art collection
Photo by Joe Ruckli

Dusk of Nations is an exhibition that looks at ideas around identity and nationhood, and how these concepts are defended and maintained, resisted and subverted.

For more info click here!

Installation view of Dusk of Nations exhibition at UQ Art Museum
Photo by Joe Ruckli

Thanks so much for reading, hope you're going well and hope to see you soon!