Recent work

Recently shown at Wellington St Projects in an exhibition called Non-specific Ellipsis, this new body of work marks a return to painting, this time involving watercolour on paper. In this work, I explore a linear visual language influenced by various syntaxes influenced by typography, emojis and entity-relational diagrams. These abstract compositions play avoid resist explicit content, remaining…

The Anticipated Image

The news media afford a vantage point to remotely observe crisis and catastrophe that is at once privileged and passive, distant and affective. This ambivalent mode of witnessing raises manifold social, ethical and political questions, and points to the complicity of the news in the affective politics of fear and anxiety that have permeated everyday…

Reality of Imaging

Reality of Imaging explores digital and analogue processes of imaging, taking the public spaces of Sydney's CBD as subject. This body of work seeks to evoke the malaise of a saturated media culture and control society. My mixed-media approach to painting involved a layered process, starting with surveillance-esque photographic images of everyday figures, then using Photoshop, and…

Namesake

Namesake explores the relationship between identity and names in the context of Internet culture, through an abstract drawing process. This series involves the continuous tracing of a line over a slideshow of images projected onto the same surface, these are the 48 images of my Internet namesakes retrieved via a Google Image search. With its aspects of time-bound…