The exhibition at Artspace, Woolloomooloo Sydney in November 2013 was originally conceived as a survey but one that attempted to come to grips with the problem that most of my work was not conceived with exhibition in mind, it always had other forms of distribution. In the end it became something different, an exploration of [...]
The Arcadia Tables are an ongoing series of tables that I have been building over the last few years, furniture that is also memento mori based on the Latin phrase "et in Arcadia ego", the knowledge that even in the happiness of Arcadia there is still always mortality. The first two were exhibited in my [...]
This probably seems an odd thing to start with but there is a reason. They illustrate a problem both with the way my work is seen and the general misunderstanding of what an artist does. First, what are they? They are a set of ten stools made of recycled varnished plywood with painted blood stains [...]