My love of drawing, politics, and architecture, with a little nudge from my father, led me to work with Aboriginal communities in Northern Australia over the past few decades. My early graphic work included the publication of pictorial chronicles of Northern Australia, political cartoons and several solo exhibitions during the eighties.
Through the looking glass
The clarity, immediacy and vitality of line drawing is hard to capture with other mediums. The drawn line is unforgiving once committed to paper if a feeling of spontaneity and freshness is the aim of the drawing. That’s my challenge and secret enjoyment. (Well, no longer secret).
In 1988, my interest in sequential drawing and frustration with static images led me to complete a Post Graduate Diploma in animation at the Swinburne Film School leading to a very short third career in animation, with commissions for children’s films and a couple of TV commercials.
I returned to my architectural practice soon after, maintaining my art practice through animation and exploring new digital media using the iPod and other iDevices. Since closing the architectural practice in 2016, I have established a studio in country Victoria in a tin shed.
My preferred mediums include pastel, ink, pen and brush, graphite, screen-based multimedia, digital drawing on the iPad/iPhone and wet process printing; painting collage, and making drawings with mixed media on paper.
I will continue to draw and paint until I drop from the tree.
