On Now and Coming Soon
Naturae Mitis, group exhibition at Traver Gallery, Seattle USA
6 June – 29 June 2024
This is a group show of artists from a number of countries including: USA, Australia, Japan and Korea. Working across a range of materials such as wood, stone, paint and glass this thoughtful presentation expresses many experiences of the natural world.
The Treasure House Fair, repressed by Adrain Sassoon. London UK
27 June – 2 July
Stand 308, Royal Hospital South Grounds London
Adrian Sassoon Gallery will present my work within a selection of contemporary sculpture and antique French porcelain for the second iteration of this new Art Fair in London. It’s always wonderful to have my work shown alongside artists from the UK, Denmark, Japan, Korea, Italy, Germany and other Australian artists.
Low Tide, Gold on Tourmaline II, showing at Treasure House Fair, London, UK
2024 FUSE Glass Prize, Gallery One, JamFactory Craft and Design Centre, Adelaide, SA
10 May – 7 July 2024
I am delighted to be a finalist in the fifth iteration of this biennial prize for Australian and New Zealand Glass. The exhibition of finalists showcases the work of 12 established and 6 emerging artists showing a pretty good range of work happening across our region. My work is a group piece I made after my residency at Tweed Regional Gallery and the surrounding rainforests in 2022.
In the Glow of Green Collection, 2023, showing in Gallery One at JamFactory, Adelaide, SA
A Natural Language, solo exhibition, Soneva Art and Glass Gallery, Soneva Fushi, Maldives Republic
22 May – 15 July 2024
I recently completed a 4 week glassblowing residency at Soneva Art and Glass on Kunfunadhoo Island in the Maldives. In that time I worked with the Studio’s professional team and we created an exhibition of my work. I worked with familiar themes and also responded to what was around me – the colours of island life a little north of the equator, both looking out to the sky and water and inwards to the jungle. It was both an incredible experience of nature and an amazingly productive and creative time in the studio.
In Sight, Pink and Blue, 2024, in the gallery at Soneva Art and Glass, Kunfunadhoo Island, Republic of Maldives
Lush: South Australian Botanicals, a group exhibition at JamFactory’s Seppeltsfield location, Barossa Valley, SA
18 May – 29 Sept 2024
I’ve made two pieces for this group exhibition which focuses on South Australian plant life. Exhibitors were invited to respond to botanicals across the South Australian landscape. I chose my old love Xanthorrea Quadrangulata. Every part of the plant feels dynamic and animated. The trunks, fantastically textured, gnarly and tough, the flower spikes up to two metres in length with thousands of tiny flowers on them, and the foliage, spinelike, rhythmic and mesmerizing. It is the foliage that I have been particularly drawn to. I see each spine, of which there can be hundreds in a single plant, as a line that catches light. It is an element repeated over and over, creating a rhythm, a form, and with occasional irregularity and interruption, expressing a beautiful order.
Superabundance II, 2024, showing at JamFactory Seppeltsfield, Barossa Valley, SA.