2024 Exhibitions

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(1) TEN MOIR GALLERY -  May June 2024
Behind the Mask exhibition Winner Best in Show
May 2024 for Rococo Punk - MOXIE

(2) DOYAL ART AWARDS - 27 June - 7 July 2024
Rococo Punk - NOVA  Figurative Finalist 
Encounters - DRAMA   Figurative Finalist

(3) ART LOVERS AUSTRALIA
EXHIBITION - We Dream in Color:

12 July - 23 Aug 24
Dreaming of the Orient 01
Dreaming of the Orient 02

(4) ART LOVERS AUSTRALIA
EXHIBITION - Echoes of the Earth:

13 Sep - 25 Oct 24
Woodland Encounters
Secret Encounters

(5) ARC SALON ART COMPETITION
17th International Salon - From July 2024
Matriarch of the Modern Man

(6) ART EDIT MAGAZINE
Double Page Spread July 2024 winter edition
Matriarch of the Modern Man

(7) ANTHOLOGY MAGAZINE
Rococo Punk - SABLE

(8) TEN MOIR GALLERY

Blu-Sky Artist Award - 15 Aug 2024

Matriarch of the Modern Man

Encounters - Full Collection.

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I'm a great believer in supporting the arts and we can do that by viewing and participating in art exhibitions. 
 

Motivation

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From one generation to the next, the way the world is run has not changed. With the internet and social media, what has changed is our awareness. The veil on human nature has been lifted and we see a world being destroyed by greed and the battle for money, power and control. The only way I can see, to balance the ugly, is to expose the darkness and add some beauty to the world.

 

I have always had a strong sense of fairness and justice and that coupled with being creative has lead me down a path of using art for social messaging. When topics are taboo art becomes the vehicle to attract public attention to a story that needs to be told. 

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Together with PLANET A2025 and Matriarch of the Modern Man my art style encompasses both social messaging, environmental awareness and timeless beauty, making the works both thought-provoking and visually captivating.

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About

 

For me, finding art was an exploration. You explore your creativity with different styles to find out who you are and what you love and go where it takes you. You look for what you are most comfortable with and what becomes your passion.

 

Photography sparked my creativity and I developed my art from there. This evolved into servicing the top end of the Sydney advertising industry in the area of photo composite, retouching and darkroom special effects before computers or photoshop. 10,000 hours in the darkroom creating magic from an art directors imagination. Production managers expected picture perfect, with the mind set that consumers like to associate with perfection. So, over 20 years last century picture perfect was in-grained into me. It's where I come from.

 

With my current series I produce a digital montage, using all my previous image creation skills, and use that as a template for brush work reminiscent of the renaissance masters to create startling realism. I love the 'Fine Art' style, it's me. I have gone full circle from picture perfect to painterly and abstract then back to picture perfect. And once again have found my place and it's paradoxical different.

 

In the 19th century, around the time of the advent of photography, picture perfect was still the norm and impressionists where the rebels. I've turned that on its head. My 'Fine Art' realism in the style of Romanticism rebels against the now norm and the painterly status quo which suits my rebellious nature, in a subtle and unpretentious way.

 

Commercial galleries put a lot of effort into building a symbiotic relationship with their stable of contemporary artists and fair enough. But, they do seem to feel a bit threatened by picture perfect fine art so I'll be remaining an independent. There is more than enough ugly in the world to suffocate all of us so, my objective then, is to add more beauty to the world.

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Art Timeline

 

BODY OF WORK 2000 to 2022

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(1) Photography 

(2) Ferns

(3) Minimalist

(4) Abstract

(5) Raw Landscape

(6) Seascapes

(7) Earth Storm

(8) Still Life Caribbean

(9) Articles - Activist

(10) Planet A2025

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SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL 2023  to  ?

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(11) Matriarch

(12) Neoclassical

(13) Rococo Punk

(14) Encounters

(15) Pixies Series

(16) Mythology

(17) Let Your Hair Win

(18) Costume Drama

(19) Dreamscapes

(20) Bike Rider

(21) Steam Punk

(22) City Lights

(23) Space Patrol

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