February 2024 Lead Curator Qtopia Sydney (former) Darlinghurst Police Station, 301 Forbes Street Darlinghurst, Sydney. The largest queer museum in the world! My thanks to the curatorial team whose dedication, diligence, research, vision, thoughtfulness, and creativity have made this a complex, beautiful, and multilayered work of history and culture: Bertie Blackman, Andrew Burrell, Laura Castagnini, Samuel Chan, Aunty Nadeena Dixon, Bren Donnellan, Todd Fuller, Ben Graetz, Steven Ross, George Savoulis, Jeremy Smith, Anne-Marie Te Whiu, Amber Vincent, Eduardo Wolfe-Alegria, and Yiorgos Zafiriou.

Two pair; there is no away 2022 plaster and mild steel shortlisted for the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize September 27 – November 5 2023 at Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf.

Lavender Menace 2022, included in the Dobell Drawing Prize 2023, March 31 – June 10 National Art School Gallery; touring regional galleries until July 2025.

February 17 – March 18 Curator, WARD 17 SOUTH for Qtopia Sydney, National Art School Forbes and Burton Streets Darlinghurst

This exhibition evokes the Ward 17 South of the 1980s and 1990s. It is shaped by the lived experience of those who remember the first days and years of the AIDS crisis, and how the community mobilised in the life and death circumstances of HIV. In this solemn space you will hear the voices of long-term survivors, doctors and nurses, advocates and activists. It includes interviews, and images of day-to-day life and special occasions on the Ward, alongside objects from the St Vincent’s Hospital Collection.

February 13 – March 3 Curator, A thousand beautiful things Clifford Chance Arcus Pride Program 2023, with work by Ali Tahayori, Armando Chant, Justine Youssef, Christine Dean, Blake Griffiths, Nadia Odlum, Neil Jenkins and Kurt Banks.

October 28 2022 Two pair (top) and Thanatos (bottom), two new works shortlisted for the Greenway Art Prize

May 1st 2022 Very excited to be part of the Carriageworks funky artist car boot CUT N POLISH. I will have some small sculptures and works on paper for sale.

February 2022 I am very pleased to be curating the next Queer Contemporaries exhibition at the National Art School: I want a future that lives up to my past.

Curated to coincide with the 2022 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, this exhibition brings together a range of distinct LGBTQI voices from within the NAS community, including teaching staff and alumni. It presents works in dialogue about the nature of contemporary art and politics and possible personal, local and global futures through queer visual languages and points of view. I want a future that lives up to my pastjuxtaposes artists and works to make visible queer aesthetics that are not tied to obvious representations of identity and sexuality, but are materially grounded in the ways LGBTQI lived experience and creative practice demands a range of navigations and interventions in mainstream cultural forms and interpretations. Against the global backdrop of the climate crisis, our second pandemic, and the last decade’s conservative backlash against the human rights of those of us who live in the margins, the works included offer subtle and complex articulations of ideas, images and forms that bridge difficult pasts and possible futures.

This exhibition is part of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival 2022.

February 2022 My next exhibition Small town boy will be held February 24 – March 7 2022 at Gaffa Gallery, Sydney.

Small town boy is a personal reflection on 80s and 90s popular and queer culture, and what it has to say to us as we go through our second pandemic. The exhibition is the culmination of a five-year body of temporary and site specific artworks that responded to place and cultural history, and incorporates reflections on architecture and the body, including Oxford Street and the Wall. The work takes the history, scale and visual elements of location to create new narratives, make visible secret histories and generate alternative meanings. Through large-scale drawings and moving image projections it takes intimate details from the built environment, and its cultural meanings for our communities, and sets it to the echo of Bronski Beat.

This exhibition is part of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival 2022.

November 2020 Inheritance A solo exhibition of new work at Gaffa Gallery, Sydney.

Inheritanceis a series of sculptural experiments with found objects, industrial detritus and building materials. As these materials collide and merge, they reflect on our over-consumption and exploitation of natural resources and our relentless impact on our environment; and question what drives this destructive excess.

The process of re-working burnt timber, car parts and signage is a material attempt to come to terms with the emotional and cognitive dissonance brought about by our consumption culture, and the commodification and mediatisation of all experience. This interior installation fills the gallery space, angular forms dissecting the room and directing the viewer, taking from minimalism the critique of interiority implicit in body-scale sculptural work and asking questions of the viewer in the face of incomprehensible systemic collapse of the natural (and in turn human) world.

This is also a broader inquiry made with reference to Australian expressions of masculinity and ownership of the land, exploring ideas about nature, the body and subjectivity through a proprioceptive experience of manipulated cultural signposts: for industrial production; for objects of consumption; and for ideas of self.

Inheritance is a meditation on alienation and identity in the context of social and cultural meanings for nature, denial of the climate crisis, and the parallel impossibilities of unmediated intimate experiences of both the natural world and sense of self.

The sculptures are both memorial gesture and provocation: an attempt to visualise – and articulate – the reverberations of this destruction through cultural forms.

May 29-31 2020 Lockdown and Light an artist project celebrating temporary light installations made by artists in their homes across the world. The project can be viewed @lockdownandlight. Stills from my moving image projections.

Postponed March 2020 Looking forward to talking on a SAMAG panel on Gender and Sexuality at the National Art School Sydney, come! More information

January 2020 Exit (the place I called home no longer exists) This work is about the feeling of migration and return; the remnants of extensive back and forth between countries; the experience of dislocation, transit, and the possessions we take with us or leave behind. It is an empty archive of memories, stories, and forgetting. Showing at Articulate Project Space Sydney this February.

October 2019 Riverbed seed pods Greenway Art Prize 2019

September 2019 Moon tunnel My interactive site activation for the opening of Edge Ashfield, collaboration with Nik Nak and ARTeConnect. And great to be part of the design team that made the Infini-D dress, which won third prize at this year’s World of Wearable Art (NZ).

April 2019 Shrine 2019 (details) Lake Light Sculpture Exhibtion Jindabyne NSW

January 2019 Imprint, Leichhardt 2019 clay wall and floor drawing, part of FERMENT at Articulate Project Space, Sydney.

November 2018 Inheritance 2018 Sculpture in the Vineyards, Wollombi NSW

July 2018 Stills from new work in progress at Testing Grounds, Melbourne.

September 23 – October 15 2017 you can see my experimental work Swallow twins at the Surry Hills Festival as part of the projection and arts program Double Take.

August 2017 A privilege to have been part of  #thedrawingexchange at the National Art School, Sydney with Small-town boy, Darlinghurst.

July 2017 New work You make me feel mighty real (everybody loves a dead gay artist) (detail) from my artist residency at Testing Grounds, Melbourne.

June 2017 I will be giving a paper on digital placemaking and visual art as part of the Digital Publics Symposium for the Vivid Ideas Program, June 3 UNSWAD.

May 2017 Great to contribute a catalogue essay to Wildfang by Lesley Turnbull, part of this years Head On Photography Festival. Exhibition runs May 12-22 at Gaffa Gallery, Sydney.

May 2017 On Friday 5th I will be presenting a paper on multidisciplinary creative working in visual art education at Return to matter the conference of the Visual Art and Design Educators Association at the National Art School. #VADEANSW

December 2016 Here are my thoughts on the ARTLANDS conference, published in the latest RealTime Arts.

October 2016 I will be giving a presentation on creative education at ARTLANDS Dubbo.

September 2016 Great to be working on the MARRICKVILLE SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS with Rebecca Conroy.

The Marrickville School of Economics* is a creative accounting and artist-led curriculum for studying and developing new ways to do economy. 

The School is free to attend and open to all and its syllabus will evolve in a manner that responds to the practical needs of the community.

September 2016 Art education and the threatened closure of SCA, RealTime Arts

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