Artist Statement.

I’m a Brisbane based visual artist using text, drawings, film photography, and figurative painting. Observing rituals, constructed narratives, and metaphorical depictions, my work draws inspiration from a variety of sources, including religious art, iconography, high/lowbrow art and its traditions, and more obscure aspects of culture like memes and bathroom graffiti.

The majority of my most recent figurative paintings examine Australian identity from a post-colonial point of view, specifically thinking about the State of Queensland. While I am a self-taught painter, I reference the academic history of painting and employ more classic techniques and procedures while allowing for more abstract and unprompted components to exist.

Although it may appear that my work engages with a critical theory, for me, painting is primarily about the process. I view painting as a kind of alchemy that can be learned, and the process itself as both a trade and a meditation.

Education and Training.

2005-2008  Fine Arts (Visual Arts) at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

2009  Mentorship with the Taring Padi art collective,, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

2010-2012 Residency at Tacheles Kunst House Berlin, Germany

2020 Residency and Ceramics mentorship with Live Make Share Art Collective in Bac Ninh,, Vietnam

2023 Anatomy Master Class. Laboratorio Caleidoscopio. Padova, Italy

Solo Exhibitions.

Mad in Queensland, Open Studio (Brisbane), June 2025

Halbes-Halbes, Backhaus Projects (Berlin), April 2024

Lucky, Sel Jak (Brisbane), March 2024

Stolen Church Candles, Post Gallery (Melbourne), December 2022

Contraposto in the pall hall, Kulas Gallery (Saigon), May 2023

Not ½ bad, Al Buscaglione (Padova, IT), Dec 2021

Ox Herding, Java Creative (Phnom Penh), April 2021

‘Dharmareah’, 289e Gallery (Saigon), Aug 2020

‘Time dog chicken toes’, Qua Gallery (Hanoi), Dec 2019

‘Other Animals’, Open House (Brisbane), Aug 2019

 ‘Foo Dog’, Soma Art Galler (Saigon), Mar 2018

‘Kampot’, Kampot Gallery (Kampot), Jan 2018

‘Gut & Bose’, Laundry Gallery (Bris), Oct 2017 

Group Exhibitions.                   

Houseful of heads, Vacant Assembly, Brisbane, Dec 2024

Block Show, Vacant Assembly, Brisbane, Dec 2023

Paradise Gloss, Side Gallery, Brisbane, Dec 2023/24

Turns Five, Good Grief Gallery, Hobart, June 2024

The Sea Has Eyes, Esk Studio, Iluka, Dec 2023

  Animal Farm Opening, Saigon, May 2021

  Grand Opening, Outer Space, Brisbane, Oct 2017

  Art Fair Nowhere gallery , Phnom Penh, Sep 2017

  Java gallery Phnom Penh, Phnom Penh, Jan 2017