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Field Trip: Nagasaki (2019)
There is a strange, paradoxical freedom to working inside another anonymous hotel room studio. Surrounded by sterile walls, generic furniture, and the quiet hum of a strange city, the space forces a complete stripping away of the familiar comforts and clutter of my permanent workspace. In this environment, the act of creation becomes entirely portable,…
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Japan Studio 2019 Higashiyoshino, Yoshino-Gun, Kotsugawa
I was lucky enough to have the use of a quiet, rural studio just outside of Nara to work on the foundational paintings for my 2020 exhibition, 101 Views of the Anthropocene. The space belonged to Kuniko and Kazu, arriving as an absolute sanctuary of isolation right when I needed it most. I traveled down…
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Yorke Peninsula Salt Lakes 2022
I went to Yorke Peninsula to spend time at the salt lakes there. It’s a beautiful place: flat, wild and windswept. The Yorke Peninsula is the land of the Narungga (traditionally spelled Nharangga) people. They have always lived on Yorke Peninsula. Their country extends as far north as Port Broughton and east to the Hummock…
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Pink Salt Lakes; traditional Country of the Latji Latji, Ngintait and Nyeri Nyeri Peoples
Traveling along the remote back routes from Sydney to Adelaide, I find myself repeatedly drawn back to the vast, shimmering expanses of the Pink Salt Lakes within Murray-Sunset National Park. It is a landscape I return to deliberately, a quiet sanctuary where I can step away from the highway to walk the crusty edges, sit…