Heading downtown to Uptown

Hi, hope you're going well!

In exciting news, I currently have a new drawing titled Never felt so wanted currently on display in the window of the great Bourke Street landmark, Pellegrini's Espresso Bar.

(Photo courtesy of Emmy Clifton)

I also have a few more large drawings, including Relatively Armless, in the laneway around the corner.

These works are part of a new outdoor group exhibition called Uptown, curated by Fiona Scanlon and Robert Buckingham, presented at the top end of Bourke Street in Melbourne.

The show features myself alongside this amazing list of twenty five artists; Peter Atkins, Damiano Bertoli, Polly Borland, Danica Chappel, Su san Cohn, Destiny Deacon, Yanni Florence, John Gollings, Louise Hearman, Bill Henson, Janina Green, Lou Hubbard, Eugenia Lim, James Lynch, Alasdair McLuckie, Viv Miller, Kent Morris, Elizabeth Newman, Louise Paramor, myself, Kerrie Poliness, Steven Rhall, Elle Shimada, The Huxleys, Lisa Young, Constanze Zikos.

Another work I'm exhibiting in Uptown is this new ceramic sculpture I made of the book Blockbuster! by the brilliant author Lucy Sussex.

Blockbuster! tells the history of Australia's first murder mystery novel, which was published in 1886 and largely set in Bourke Street. The sculpture is currently on display in the front window of the iconic Melbourne bookstore Hill Of Content.

Amazingly the author Lucy Sussex was kind enough to drop by Hill of Content yesterday and autograph the sculpture! 

Photo courtesy of Emmy Clifton

Uptown is on now until February 28, 2021, keep an eye out if you happen to be up town in Bourke Street! For more info please click here.

In other news, my solo show Planes, Trains and Bubble'O Bills on still on now until March 14 at Tweed Regional Gallery. Click here to read an article about the exhibition written by Kirsty Francis and published on the website A Rich Life.

And in other exciting news, the Christmas Card drawing workshop that I presented recently with the National Gallery of Victoria is now online and can be viewed by clicking here.

Thanks so much reading, hope you have a safe and happy week!

(Photo courtesy of Federation Square, and photographer @dormancreativephotographer)

We'll croissant that bridge when we crumb to it

Hey, it's officially the final week to see the Symphony Orchid-stra in my new solo show at MARS Gallery, Trying To Leaf Things Better Than We Found Them!

This work is all about listening to nature.

Each orchid is hand sculpted and kiln fired. 

Trying to leaf things better than we found them is on until December 15. Thanks so much to everyone who's seen it so far!

For more info, and to see the exhibition catalogue, please click here!


In other news, a big thanks for the lovely messages from people who've seen my new solo show at Tweed Regional Gallery in NSW, titled Trains, Planes and Bubble'O Bills.

Here's a couple of photos of the show, which is on now until March 14, 2021. For more info please click here!



In other news, here's some photos taken of my work in the group show Eat Art, on now until January 31st, 2021, at Hawkesbury Regional Gallery.

The show features myself alongside artists Marian Abboud, Cath Barcan, Mechelle Bounpraseuth, Lucy Culliton, Phil Ferguson, Chrissy Flanagan, Ben Tankard and Dawn Tan.

Here's a couple of photos of my work in Eat Art. For more info click here!


And in other fun news, here's a new ceramic sculpture I made of a croissant.
I was recently commissioned to create four ceramic croissants by Melbourne based illustrator Juliet Sulejmani, who's creating an ongoing project about croissants, which can be found here.

My favourite part of making ceramic croissants was definitely brushing on the buttery shiny glazes.

Thanks so much for reading, I hope our paths croissant again soon!

Skating on thin ice-cream

Hi, here's a new ceramic sculpture called Walking on Thin Ice Magic.

This piece is included in a new group exhibition called Eat Art, opening this Saturday December 5th at Hawkesbury Regional Gallery in New South Wales.

The exhibition explores the universal experience of food and its influence on our lives and imaginations, and features the work of myself alongside Marian Abboud, Cath Barcan, Mechelle Bounpraseuth, Lucy Culliton, Phil Ferguson, Chrissy Flanagan, Ben Tankard and Dawn Tan.

Eat Art is on until January 31st, 2021. For more info please click here!


In other exciting news, this Saturday December 5th at 12pm I'm hosting a live Christmas card themed drawing workshop with the National Gallery of Victoria, as part of an online event called North Pole University.

The event is free and fun for all ages. For more info, and to watch along at home, please click here!

In other news, my solo show at Mars Gallery is still on until December 15th, thanks so much to everyone who's seen it so far! For more info, and to view the exhibition catalogue, please click here!

And in other news, my solo show at Tweed Regional Gallery, called Trains, Planes and Bubble'O Bills, is still on until March 14, 2021. For more info please click here!

Thanks so much for reading, hope things are looking UP & GO'ing well!