Horsing around!

Hi, hope you're going well!

In exciting news, I'm so pleased to share that my first bronze sculpture Hold Your Horses has been selected as a finalist in the Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art!

Hold Your Horses
Bronze
20cm x 16cm x 8cm
Edition of 6 plus 2AP
2023

Hold Your Horses encourages reflection on the art of slowing down.

While slowing down can feel like a daunting prospect when we have such anxiety about falling behind, Hold Your Horses playfully allows us to shift our focus away from what may be lost towards what we stand to gain.

Huge congrats to the other finalists and entrants! The Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art opens from April 4 to May 25. For more info click here!

In other exciting news, I'm so pleased to share that my piece Discarded Shopping List (Corn Thins) has been selected as a finalist in the Muswellbrook Art Prize!

Discarded Shopping List (Corn Thins)
Enamel and synthetic polymer paint on aluminium
120cm x 120cm x 4cm
2024
Photo by Tobias Titz

I first began collecting discarded shopping lists when I was 15 and got a part time job at a supermarket. Despite their anonymity, found shopping lists read like poetry, and act as portraits of the people we pass in the aisles.

Most shopping lists are written quickly and without aesthetic consideration, and it's through the act of slowly recreating them that I allow myself the time and space to appreciate these seemingly mundane everyday objects, creating a permanent record of a fleeting moment.

Discarded Shopping List (Corn Thins)
Enamel and synthetic polymer paint on aluminium
120cm x 120cm x 4cm
2024
Photo by Tobias Titz

Huge congrats to the other finalists and entrants! The exhibition opens at the Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre in NSW on March 29. For more info click here!

In other news, it's the final week to see my 100 ceramic sculptures of ice-creams, on display in the Perc Tucker Regional Gallery in Townsville, Queensland.

Image Courtesy of Townsville City Galleries. Photo by Roslyn Budd

On loan from Bendigo Art Gallery, this series is included in the group exhibition Yucky Yum Yum, curated by Holly Arden and on now until March 9.

Image Courtesy of Townsville City Galleries. Photo by Roslyn Budd

In other news, a big thanks to the website Top 100 artists for including me in their list of Top 100 Collectable Artists!

It's so nice to be in there alongside so many great artists I admire. To read the full list click here!

And lastly but not leastly, thanks so much to everyone who said hello back in January at the Quarantine Art Fair!

Here's a photo of my inflatable sculpture The World's Gone Pear Shaped, which was selected to be installed at Point Nepean, overlooking the Mornington Peninsula.

The World's Gone Pear Shaped
300cm x 200cm x 200cm
Durable PVS coated vinyl, fan, internal lighting 
2022

The World's Gone Pear Shaped uses humour as an entry point to looking at anxieties, both on a global scale and on a personal level, and serves as a hopeful reminder that despite going pear shaped things can still be fruitful.

Thanks so much for your support and hope to see you soon!