Sydney at the moment feels raw, earthy + dry.... With barely any rain to speak of, alot of strong winds AND a 70 year duststorm, the city feels totally exposed to the elements...

 

Its an eerie sensation that makes me feel like we have now skipped Spring and are heading straight into a dry hot summer! Which would be fine for a lizard like me, but the animals and plantlife are truly suffering...

 

I am an environmentalist at heart but I usually keep my thoughts quiet and contemplative rather than demonstrative and revolutionary. But now Im feeling alittle different, and as such, my artwork is starting to refect the change...

 

The new installation/photography works that Im working on are about Spirtuality and my personal questioning of what I believe in. However - I could go further and say they are about the Land and the fragility of Nature.

 

In this vein, I thought it was time to introduce some 'natural' materials to my work, and so I went out to one of my favourite art stores and bought some beautiful red oxide pigment. And it was love at first sight! It has provided me with a totally new way of working... and im experimenting, playing + learning with a material that has its own language to teach me.

 

For the first time in a long time-

Im excited!