Painting to me has a cultural function. To my mind, it is not related to turning in on itself in asking the question, “what is art?” but rather, I see its aim as a socially proactive agent that is continually asking the changing question, “what is culture?”.
In this view, art is not a practically pointless and “subjective” divergence but an essential aesthetic articulation of collective - rather than merely personal - human identity and morality. A critical cultural component if we are not to feel alienated within our world.
It is from such a perspective that I take a classical aesthetic language of art, to express contemporary cultural, social and moral realities or “truths”. Narrating in paint, what I perceive as pertinent to our present.
Education
2000 Julian Ashton Art School
2001-2002 National Art School
2003-2005 Julian Ashton Art School
2004 Diploma of Fine Arts, Julian Ashton Art School
2007-2009 Bachelor of Arts (History Major) University of Sydney
2010-2011 Master of Art Curatorship
2014-2017 Masters by Research. Thesis title, The Peripatetic Aesthetic, Counter-Mannerism and the Myth of the Carracci Reform
Exhibitions Competitions and Awards
2000 Julian Ashton student and teachers exhibition
2001 National Art school student exhibition
2002 National Art school student exhibition
2003 Julian Ashton student and teachers exhibition
2003 Winner of the Sir William Dobell Scholarship for Classical Drawing and Painting
2004 Julian Ashton student and teachers exhibition
2005 Julian Ashton student and teachers exhibition
2005 Henry Gibbons Drawing Prize, Julian Ashton Art School
2012 Artarmon Galleries, Exhibition 11-25 September
2012 Artarmon Galleries, Group Show 16 Nov-8 Dec
2013 CK Gallery, Newtown, Sydney Jan-Feb
2013 Salon Des Refusés, 23 March-19 May
2013 Hawkesbury Art Prize Finalist, Purple Noon Gallery Oct
2014 Oakhill Art Prize Exhibition, 21-23 March
2014 Archibald Finalist - July
2018 ArtEst Tutors Exhibition, 22 October - 4 November