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