Collective Mindstorm
In painting everything begins somewhere. But if all of it—the origin, the hand, the object, the very materials—is deliberately without value, I have a good chance of achieving my goal: a painting without context or purpose. Simultaneously everything and nothing. A painting that exists in its purest form, free from the weight of judgment.
To this end, I work with found objects—discards from the nonsense of humanity. Found objects beget their own objections—each material a provocation. My medium is leftover house paint and charcoal collected from the bush. Nothing sacred, nothing precious. I paint from all sides—horizontally, vertically—refusing orientation, refusing narrative. I experiment constantly. Decisions made in the moment. Accidents allowed. Meaning irrelevant.
Ideas overflow, disrupt boundaries, and bleed into one another—uncontained, unresolved. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Odourless Colourful, Bush charcoal and salvaged house paint on canvas
Pucker Up, Bush charcoal and salvaged house paint on canvas, 91 x 84cm
Templar Nights, Bush charcoal and salvaged house paint on canvas, 85 x 80cm
Unnatural Histoire, Bush charcoal and salvaged house paint on canvas, 91 x 84cm
Amoebus Strip-tease, Bush charcoal and house paint on canvas, 122 x 122cm
Information Facility, Bush charcoal, Diggers oxide, salvaged house and spray paint on canvas, 160 x 160cm
Herzog, Bush charcoal, salvaged house and spray paint on canvas, 77 x 84cm
Fatuous Ten, Bush charcoal, salvaged house paint and spray putty on canvas, 100 x 100cm
Hurly Burley Cage, Bush charcoal, acrylic and salvaged house paint on canvas, 158 x 135cm
Monstrous Moonshine, Bush charcoal and salvaged house paint on canvas, 69 x 69cm
Squid Berry Bimba, Bush charcoal and salvaged house paint on canvas, 172.5 x 138cm
Tempus Ex, Bush charcoal, wax crayon, oil stick, salvaged house and spray paint on canvas, 84 x 84cm
Collective Mindstorm, Bush charcoal, paint pen, salvaged house and spray paint on canvas, 80 x 80cm
Oblivious Camcorder, Bush charcoal, paint pen, salvaged house and spray paint on canvas, 115 x 115cm
Super Imposition, Bush charcoal, wax crayon and salvaged house paint on canvas, 150 x 180cm
Limbic Pentameter, Bush charcoal and salvaged house paint on canvas, 110 x 140cm
Orchestrated Pleasant, Burnt furniture charcoal and salvaged house paint on canvas, 80 x 80cm
Ghost Dressing, Controlled burn charcoal, spray paint and salvaged house paint on canvas, 132 x 143cm
Nun None, Controlled burn charcoal and salvaged house paint on canvas, 84 x 91 cm
Glen Merengue, Pizza oven charcoal and salvaged house paint on canvas, 120 x 150cm
Beatbox Barbara, Controlled burn charcoal, willow charcoal, acrylic and paint pen on canvas, 80 x 80cm
Charlie Tyred, Spray paint dregs, controlled burn charcoal, acrylic and salvaged house paint on canvas, 80 x 80cm
Horse Potato, Controlled burn charcoal and spray paint dregs on canvas, 91 x 91cm
Crapola, Controlled burn charcoal, wax crayon, salvaged house and spray paint, 100 x 100cm
Scum study, Pizza oven charcoal and salvaged house paint on canvas, 51 x 51cm
3 Standen, Controlled burn charcoal and salvaged house paint on canvas, 91 x 84cm
Chaff study, Charcoal and salvaged house paint on canvas
Ghost study, Pizza oven charcoal, acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 51 x 51cm - SOLD
Feet firmly on the ground, Bush charcoal and house paint on canvas, 91 x 84cm