A R T a r c h i t e c t u r e

I am an architect, sculptor and poet. I have spent many hours with my face pressed against the glass of planes, cars and trains watching both the patterns in the land and streetscapes formed by elevation and speed.   

My recent sculptural work is an exploration of those patterns and forces. 

I use elemental materials in their fundamental states, to define the layers/boundaries/edges, and let the shadows, rust and time weave the serendipity. I am using weathering steel and the patterns of rust as a base to contrast with the impervious shiny galvanized, stainless, and painted steel. The rust keeps evolving and growing into a protective patina on the weathering steel it encases.

However, my works have always been defined by idea rather than material. I have worked at gallery scale and at a public scale firstly at Sculpture by the Sea in Cottesloe in 2007, and then always through my architectural work. Many of my ideas have been realized in metal, steel, aluminium and corten, but my most recent works have been transient ephemeral pieces in the public domain, both commissioned and unsanctioned, all exploring ideas of the human position within the natural and built environments. 

I acknowledge the people of the Woi Wurrung and Boon Wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nations on whose unceded lands I work and make art on. I respectfully acknowledge their Ancestors and Elders, past and present.