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)
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)
Making Light of this dull, dull, day, 2022
       
     
SELECTED WORKS & EXHIBITIONS / TREE LOG PAPER BOOK (2022)
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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)
       
     
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