Artist’s Statement

For me, as an artist, delivering a form of ecological aesthetic for the purpose of sensory education for the preservation of our naturel world, addresses the absurdity of the Anthropocene epoch which paradoxically is leading humanity towards extinction.

Having exhibited my work in both solo and numerous group exhibitions, I have had considerable feedback from those within regional Queensland communities of their concerns pertaining to local environmental instability’s, notably coal seam gas operations, open-cut mining, water pollution, urban development, land clearing, and endemic flora and fauna loss. There is a collective environmental anxiety, and it is a driving force that inspires my art practice, in the attempt to make social, environmental, and political change through the narrative of a visual form of effect and consequence.

My chosen medium at present is graphite, I do drawings from which the construction of synthetic and natural environments are built from monochromatic plains within my work, conceptually exploring both the felt experiences (the physical reality), and the unconscious experience (intuitive reality). Through non-representational and realistic imagery within a picture plane, based on the formulation of an autonomous perspective, the use of restriction within the space, keeping it minimal, and emphasizing the diminished scape artistically conveys the effect human development has had, and will have, on the physical place we exist. My aim is for people to recognize what is missing, and be reminded of the value of what is being lost environmentally.