1993 Bachelor of Arts, CSU Bathurst
2012 National Arts School, Sydney
2024 The River Between Us, Michael Reid Southern Highlands
2024 The Road to Wee Jasper, Tyger Gallery
2024 Special Release Michael Reid Southern Highlands
2022 What the Wayfarer Saw, Major solo exhibition Goulburn Regional Art Gallery
2024 The River, Michael Reid Southern Highlands
2021 Red Fish, Blue Fish, Purple Noon Gallery
2020 After the Fire, Purple Noon Gallery
2019 Backyard Summer, Michael Reid Murrurundi
2018 Over the Back Fence, Michael Reid Murrurundi
2016 It’s For Your Own Good, M16 Artspace, Canberra
2014 Dry Your Tears, Stur Gallery, Braidwood
2013 Dark Side of the Road, Gaff a Gallery, Sydney
2012 Summer in Berlin, ArtHouse Gallery, Sydney
2012 A Dingo Ate My Baby, TAP Gallery, Sydney
2023 Crossing the void, Fathom Gallery, Seattle
2023 Queer the Hill, The Cloud Gallery, Seattle
2022 All things Great and Small, Studio Altenburg, Braidwood
2021 Hope, Studio Altenburg, Braidwood
2020 The Other Art Fair, Los Angeles
2019 The People Next Door, Studio Altenburg, Braidwood
2018 Coarse Stories, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery
2018 The Exhibition Project, City Recital Hall, Sydney
2017 The Other Art Fair, Melbourne & Sydney
2016 The Other Art Fair, Sydney
2024 Paddington Art Prize
– Winner Anthea Polson Art Award
– Winner Rathenart Print Award
2024 ACT City Renewal Authority, Creative Hoarding Pilot Program
2024 Bundanon Artist-in-Residence
2024 Muswellbrook Art Prize (Finalist)
2024 Goulburn Art Award (Finalist)
2024 QPRC Art Award (Finalist)
2023 National Still Life Award (Finalist)
2023 Naked & Nude Art Prize (Finalist)
2023 WAMA Art Award (Finalist)
2023 When you are gone; Shunpike Storefronts art installation, Seattle
2023 The Reckoning; Seattle Restored, art installation, Seattle
2022 MPRG National Works on Paper (Finalist)
2022 Blake Art Prize (Finalist)
2022 Goulburn Art Award (Finalist)
2021 Paddington Art Prize (Finalist)
2021 Doug Moran Portrait Prize (Semi-fi nalist)
2020 Blake Prize (Finalist)
2020 MPRG National Works on Paper (Finalist)
Artist Statement
I see my works as emotional landscapes because I want to evoke a feeling of a place, rather than a direct representation of what I see. In a way my works are partially imagined likenesses as I take what I see in the natural landscape and exaggerate shapes and forms.
When our eyes look across a landscape we tend to edit out the noise and focus on the keystones of what makes that place magical. That’s what I try to do with my landscapes, focus on bold shapes, almost in an abstract way and then add in the detail that brings it back to the place we might recognise.
Ghostworking is a technique I used with my collages where I overpaint magazine pages with thin glazes of acrylic paint so text and images ghost through the paint. It’s a technique that gives depth and added texture to my final artwork.
The tiny figures in the landscape are, in part, a reference to staffage in Old Master paintings, figures embarking on their daily activities that imbue the landscapes with life and create little narratives.
They’re a way to dramatise the scale or feeling of a landscape and for me, I’ll dwarf the figures to accentuate the impact and feeling of a place.
I like to think about what the figures might be saying, why they’re there, what the relationship is between them. All the figures are male because fellas behave differently when they’re in the bush, out of the gaze of the wider world. They’re prepared to open up and have difficult conversations and resolve things that’s on their mind.
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