A slide. A slip. For a fleeting moment, in that split-second of instability, you are forced to make sense of the difference between your perception of the scene and its reality. Unexpected, shocking, even hilarious, the slip creates a brief, someti
       
     
SELECTED WORKS & EXHIBITIONS / SLIPPERY IMAGES (2023)
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SELECTED WORKS & EXHIBITIONS / JOY (2022-2023)
O Jenny G , 2023 In a 1995 essay, the art historian Jennifer A. González coined the term ‘autotopography’ to describe how the accumulation of personal objects – heirlooms, mementoes, travel souvenirs and photographs – become physical extensions of
       
     
SELECTED WORKS & EXHIBITIONS / O JENNY G (2023)
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SELECTED WORKS & EXHIBITIONS / SOCIAL (2022)
Songs & Pictures is a study of photography’s history, desire, and the tensions between the male and female gaze. My image making methodology involves appropriating images of young, conventionally attractive women, sourced from my late grandfa
       
     
SELECTED WORKS & EXHIBITIONS / SONGS & PICTURES (2022 - 2023)
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SELECTED WORKS & EXHIBITIONS / NOT FOR THE SAKE OF SOMETHING MORE (2021)
ST FRANCIS , Temporary warehouse site, Collingwood, Melbourne 19.10.2019 Over a number of weeks I restaged and documented selected photographic works from recent solo and group shows in a disused (and since demolished) warehouse in Collingwood, M
       
     
SELECTED WORKS & EXHIBITIONS / HAVING AN EXPERIENCE/ ENERGY ORGANISATION (2019)
Faye , 2019 Οι νέοι Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne 08.02.2019 – 23.03.2019 Οι νέοι is a photographic exploration of adolescence, nostalgia and the aesthetics of pedagogy. The Greek title, derived from Hannah Arendt’s seminal essay, ‘The
       
     
SELECTED WORKS & EXHIBITIONS / Οι νέοι (2019)
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SELECTED WORKS & EXHIBITIONS / MASKS FOR MAGICIANS (2018)
Diminished Knowledge, 2018 Patinated bronze, 18.5 x 9.5 x 4.5 cm
       
     
SELECTED WORKS & EXHIBITIONS / DIMINISHED KNOWLEDGE (2018)
Polytechnic Tristian Koenig, Melbourne 15.03.2018 – 14.04.2018 Installation images courtesy of Tim Gresham
       
     
SELECTED WORKS & EXHIBITIONS / POLYTECHNIC (2018)
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SELECTED WORKS & EXHIBITIONS / AN INTRODUCTION TO LIMINAL AESTHETICS (2017)
       
     
SELECTED WORKS & EXHIBITIONS / TOWARD NEW KNOWLEDGE (2017)
Throwing Off The Hump Kings Artist Run, Melbourne 08.04.2017 – 29.04.2017 Deriving its title from a labour-efficient potting technique, Throwing Off the Hump is a multi-channel video installation that ruminates on the Sisyphean burden of mem
       
     
SELECTED WORKS & EXHIBITIONS / THROWING OFF THE HUMP (2017)
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SELECTED WORKS & EXHIBITIONS / DISTANCE ARRANGEMENT (2016)