Originally from Sydney, I studied sculpture and music at the then Darling Downs Institute of Avanced
Education ( University of Southern Queensland ). Returning to Sydney in 1981 with a group of fellow
graduates, the Art/ Empire/ Industry exhibition space was opened. Living and working from there was
the start of my development as an artist. In a short time, many exhibitions and performances came
through the door that that kept me enlivened and feeling that good work could get made in Sydney.
Soon another studio was established at Lilyfield Rd, followed in a couple of years with a studio in
Balmain. Once again a tenancy ceased with the developers moving in and it was off to Newtown for a
few more years before finding the Stanmore studio for a relatively long period of 1989 – 1995. During
all these years I had exhibiting with Coventry Gallery in Elizabeth St. Paddington, and had held five solo
shows and participated in numerous group exhibitions.
Following a three month tour of galleries in Nth. America and France in 1993, I enmbarked on a period
of public works and commissions that went right through to the new century, culminating with 'Song
Cycle' 2001, sited in the NSW Northern Tablelands town of Walcha. I had had to find another studio
during this period, this one on the Alexandra Canal at Tempe, and had started to exhibit with Legge
Gallery in Redfern. This was all energised in 1997, by the birth of the public outdoor exhibition,
Sculpture by the Sea, held on the headland above Bondi Beach. Things in Sydney were exciting, but
expensive, and the demands of making expansive three dimensional work required some pragmatism
when once again a lease was terminated.
I moved everything to a property at Walcha. I was a guest in the cottage at fellow sculptor Stephen
King's 'Blackfellows Gully' for nearly four years, periodically commuting to Sydney for teaching. I
worked on solo exhibitions and a variety of public projects installed around the town. They are part of
what is known as the 'Fresh Air Gallery'. After a busy time, as a treat in 2002, I leased a studio in Hunter
St. Newcastle and painted for a year, exhibiting them at Legge in 2003. Circumstances, like the birth of
my daughter Pearl in January 2004, required a return to Sydney where I started working from a garage
in Earlwood on the painted plywood sculptures that would occupy me for five solo exhibitions, a couple
of which were held in Melboune.
Leaving my place that I had held for over 20 years as a part-time teacher in the Sculpture Dept. of The
National Art School, I returned to Walcha in 2009. Now I am working full time from a studio I built
behind the house I have bought at Thee St. in the town. I have made four solo exhibitions from this
space, now exhibiting with Watters Gallery in East Sydney, just participated in my 10 th Sculpture by the
Sea exhibition and towed my trailer many miles to fulfill the needs and obbligations of being an artist in
a unique province of regional Australia. Currently living and working in Walcha.
