Currently on exhibition
The Yellow Jug and other stories
A Head On Photo Festival exhibition
Open Program 2025
SAPPHO BOOKS, CAFE AND BAR
51 Glebe Pt Road, Glebe, NSW 2083
5th November 2025 - 17th December 2025
Ongoing work
Series: Preserving
The ongoing series entitled Preserving conveys my frustrations and fears for the preservation of the earth’s environment.
Through exploring motivations and methods of preservation, I am examining our will, ability, and power, to preserve in the Anthropocene. Will it be enough?
My exploration of this series continues
Preserving: item 744
2023, Photograph printed on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper with archival pigment inks. Framed in FFS timber with Art Glass.
60 x 45 cm, 1 of 10. Enquire
Preserving: item 744. Like the environment it depicts, the photograph in the jar is isolated, fragile, damaged, and collapsing. It is already a historical artefact – a moment in time, preserved. The jar is full of water: so vital to life, so capable of destruction.
The vintage domestic jar, a universal tool used for preserving food, serves as a reminder of our ability, across time and cultural differences, to do what needs to be done.
Artist’s note: A handmade photographic emulsion of the artist's own work is suspended in water in a vintage jar.
Winner: Grand Prize, Hahnemühle Summer Salon, 2023
Australian Centre for Contemporary Photography
Fitzroy, Victoria.
Finalist: 2023 William and Winifred Bowness Prize,
Museum of Australian Photography
Monash, Victoria
Finalist: 2024 Environmental Art & Design Award,
Manly Art Gallery & Museum
Manly, NSW
Also featured in The Guardian Australia.
Preserving: The Future
2023, Photograph printed on Hahnemühle Bamboo paper with archival pigment inks. Framed in FFS timber with Art Glass.
60 x 45 cm, 1 of 10. | 100 x 76 cm, 1 of 5. Enquire
Preserving: The Future, presents a photograph contained within a zip-lock bag. This ubiquitous and problematic convenience is excellent at preserving the child’s lunch, yet detrimental to the environment of the child’s future.
The children in the photograph are sandwiched between the environment behind them and the rising waters at their feet. The zip-lock bag is half-filled with flood waters and debris, blurring the lines between the rising tide in the photograph and the rising flood waters in the bag.
Preserving: The Future illustrates the omnipresent tension in the modern mundane. The everyday micro-decision, juxtaposed against the macro-reality of the current epoch.
Artist’s note: A re-purposed, gifted zip-lock bag contains a photograph of children by the artist and flood waters collected in the Hawkesbury River in 2024 and 2025.
On exhibition at Gosford Regional Art Gallery,
6th September - 9th November
Finalist: 2025 Gosford Art Prize, Gosford Regional Art Gallery
