I am so happy that my artwork made in response to the 2020 bushfires has been selected as a FINALIST in this years FISHERS GHOST ART AWARD 2021 At Campbelltown Arts Centre till 10th December open daily 10- 4pm. Please go and see the exhibition as it is always an amazing showcase of art of all different mediums from artist’s of all backgrounds reflecting our multi-cultural society & life in Campbelltown. I feel so privileged as my paintings and sculptures now have been accepted into the Award each year since 2013.

I will add an installation shot of the work after my visit to the exhibition on Tuesday the 9th November.

My Painting Tasmanie et La Mer, 2019 was accepted into the 2020 Glover Art Prize at Evandale, Tasmania. My art statement on the work for the Prize.

My practice explores the connection between all living things and man’s subliminal relationship to the environment in a world increasingly impacted by climate change. In 2013 using Tasmanian symbolic and historical themes, newspaper clippings and imagined imagery I created L’Homme et la Mer, a 2D Wunderkammer or ‘cabinet of curiosities’

In 2019 distressed by the lack of action over climate change and the inevitable fate of a future of rising seas and loss to marine life, mainland species and forests due to rising temperatures I returned to the L’Homme et la Mer. Casting it’s symbolic imagery into a sea where past and present are re-imagined, re-naming it Tasmanie et La Mer. This  work is re-examination 250 years on of our Colonial settlers mindset shaped by 18th century ideas of power, nature to be tamed and the doctrine of  'Terra Nullis' historical dispostion of the indigenous people to our's now. The ongoing power inbalnce for our indigenous population and the growing potential for marine loss for Tasmanian waters in a time of competing interests for its finite resources.