I have been a jeweller, jade carver and stone sculptor before settling on bronze as my main medium. I use the lost wax process to produce my own work and provide a casting service for other artists.

With my figurative work, I am looking for a way of working that has a sketchlike quality, that has the makers marks on... Read More

I have been a jeweller, jade carver and stone sculptor before settling on bronze as my main medium. I use the lost wax process to produce my own work and provide a casting service for other artists.

With my figurative work, I am looking for a way of working that has a sketchlike quality, that has the makers marks on it, and a freshness, that in fact is the antithesis of the bronze casting process. A recurrent theme for me is the way we communicate through gesture and posture. I am fascinated by the hardwired and unconscious unspoken communication we all have to situations we find ourselves in.

I am also interested in revisiting skills and media and incorporating new to make work that is more symbolic. Repitition is something that I find fascinating, the way that a motif, a form, a texture repeated produces something ‘new’.

EXHIBITIONS
2009 “Connect” Solo Exhibition, Hahndorf Academy
2009 SALA Group Exhibition,Amhurst Galleries
2008 “Refigured Refined” Hahndorf Academy
2008 Adelaide Hills Art Show
2008 “Mens Work” Pepper Street Arts Centre
2008 “Birds On a Wire” SALA installation Goodwood Primary School
2007 Belair Art Show
2006 Adelaide Hills Art Show
2004 Waterhouse Prize Adelaide Museum
2004 Zoo Art Walk, Adelaide Zoo Fringe Exhibition
2002 “Body” 2 man show with James Martin, Adelaide Central Gallery

PUBLIC ART
2010 “Common Wombat”
Hutchinson Reserve, Norwood
Sculpting and bronze casting commision, current

2007 “Swept”
British Child Migration Commemorative Sculpture
Migration Museum Adelaide
Sculpting and bronze casting commission

2006 “Darwin 2 Step” Bronze Sculpture, Adelaide Zoo

SELECTED CASTING COMMISSIONS
2007-10 Tom Kruse, Postman
Birdwood Motor Museum,Maree, Birdsville, Gawler.
Bronze Casting Service
Artist Pat Moseley

2006 Vietnam War Memorial
Torrens Training Ground
Adelaide City
Bronze Casting Service
Artist James Martin

2005 “Fallen Branch”
Bronze Casting Service.
Edition of 3,one of which is in Art Gallery SA
Artist Hossein Valamanesh

TEACHING
2009 The Figure From Wax To Bronze, Sculpting and casting class
2004/06 Year 7 Sculpture Project, Crafers Primary School
2003/04 Limestone Carving Workshop, Adelaide Central School of Art
2001 Bronze Casting demonstration, St Peters Junior School
2001 Bronze Casting, curriculum subject ACSA
2000 Casting and mouldmaking ACSA Term 2

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
2007 Best Foot Forward, Expression of Interest Workshop
2003/05 Limestone Symposium Mt Gambier S.A.
2004 “Match”Design competition
2001 Ecorche(study of bone and muscles ) ACSA

MEMBERSHIPS
ACCREDITED MEMBER - CRAFT SOUTH
(public liability cover $20,000,000.)