Art works

Unseeded

Unseeded

Unseeded is on display at the Drill Hall Gallery in Canberra from 12 September to 3 November 2024. Unseeded is an art commission funded by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and …

Hard Yakka

Hard Yakka

HARD YAKKA is an exploration of the humble yet iconic flannel shirt. From artists to archaeologists, stockmen, lumberjacks, bogans or Grunge music fans, the flannel (‘plaid’) shirt has been a favourit…

Hoard

Hoard

From Canberra to New York to the Bingie Dreaming track, Frederick & Hayne have been collecting lost hairbands for over a decade. For the first time they are displaying their co…

Expanding the Field

Expanding the Field

Encounters in archaeology & art This solo exhibition at M16 Gallery resulted from a three year Australian Research Council funded project exploring a creative-practice approach to archaeology. A c…

Yeti on the Run

Yeti on the Run

Yeti captured, 2017 This body of work is a continuation of my previous collaborations with Katie Hayne, based around our Toyota Corolla. In this work the car seat cover, a remnant of a dead sheep, is …

Starscapes from Stromlo Plates

Starscapes from Stromlo Plates

This body of work was inspired by a collection of glass photographic plates in the heritage archive of Mt Stromlo Observatory, ANU. The project was facilitated by  Dr Brad Tucker from the ANU Research…

Unsorted / Sorted 6mm sieve

Unsorted / Sorted 6mm sieve

 This series of cyanotypes is a work in progress being undertaken as a collaboration with Associate Professor Anne Clarke (University of Sydney).  Annie was in the process of repatriating bo…

Unlicensed Plates

Unlicensed Plates

This series was made for The Plate Show at M16, though I had been thinking about making the work for some time. During my PhD research I was exposed to a lot of writing and artworks that explore the t…

Fan Mashups

Fan Mashups

This work is a series of three videos made by editing and reassembling ‘found’ online covers of popular songs. Each mashup is a new rendition made from the collective voices of ordinary people. They c…

TV Dinners – Magic Lantern Chromotrope

TV Dinners – Magic Lantern Chromotrope

I was invited to make a work for a Magic Lantern performance at the Drill Hall Gallery as part of the Heritage in the Limelight project. Martyn Jolly and Elisa deCourcy of the ANU choreographed the wh…

Small Finds (Reboot)

Small Finds (Reboot)

My sculptural piece Small Finds and two associated prints from my Ghost of Small Finds series are featured in the first show of new gallery space Prompt, which opens tonight as part of the new ANU Pop…

Talking to Strangers

Talking to Strangers

Talking to Strangers was an installation of reclaimed graffiti accompanied by a cairn of spray-painted granite rocks, created in collaboration with Katie Hayne. It was intended to reflect on the mater…

Losing its Aura

Losing its Aura

My photograph Losing its Aura (Reading Walter Benjamin) was recently shortlisted for the Josephine Ulrik and Win Schubert Photography Prize. The image is a composite photograph created from a  nu…

Love on the Rocks

Love on the Rocks

This collaboration incorporates pieces of a volcanic rock (dacite) flaked by Tim Maloney and me.  The text was painted by Katie Hayne. The work was made in 2015 for the show Ground Truthings: Art &amp…

Upturned Toyota

Upturned Toyota

‘Upturned Toyota’, 2014, Belconnen Arts Centre, Unruly Orchestrations University of Canberra staff exhibition. This site-specific installation is the third in a series of collaborative artworks create…

Sleepwalker

Sleepwalker

We are all used to seeing the odd mattress lying in parkland or propped against a charity bin. They are often disposed of carelessly or with little consideration for the intimacy that the mattress onc…