biography

I was born in small-town New Zealand in the mid-seventies. After finishing my studies I moved to Germany in 1996 before settling in Perth, Western Australia in 2002.

Growing up in such an isolated environment has always coloured my artistic practice. This was further complicated by my time in Germany (a lack of language) and subsequently in Perth. The later being renowned as the most isolated major city in the world and notoriously conservative.

Context, broader concepts surrounding 'captions' and a lack of a personal cultural 'library' have always been central to ideas explored in my work.

The images have always been very personal and have a therapeutic nature to them. They are typically how I work through problems or issues in my life.

I majored in Photography with a Fine Art bias and exhibit on a regular basis in Perth, Western Australia where I now live with my artist wife. Please see the press archive for some insight into our working practice.

selected exhibitions

2012

five (new work), Perth, Australia

2011

Joondalup Invitational Art Award*, Perth, Australia.

* I removed my work from this award on October 19 in protest over the treatment of the work by the curatorial team. Read more...

2010

Collective @ the Perth Centre for Photography, Perth, Australia
five (epilogue) @ the Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane, Australia
National Photography Prize 2010 (Modern Narratives: Photography as Story Teller), Albury, Australia.
Joondalup Invitational Art Award, Perth, Australia

2009

Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle, Australia
five @ the Perth Centre for Photography, Perth, Australia
CLIP Awards @ the Perth Centre for Photography, Perth, Australia
2009 Bunbury Biennale, Bunbury & Margaret River, Australia

2008

drei @ Breadbox Gallery as part of FotoFreo 2008 Perth*, Perth, Australia
2007 IPA/Lucies Tour, Los Angeles, USA

2007

2007 IPA/Lucies Tour, New York, USA
BankWest Contemporary Art Prize, Perth, Australia
Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award,
Surfers Paradise, Australia
Transitions** @ Kurb Gallery, Perth, Australia

2006

BankWest Contemporary Art Prize, Perth, Australia
Fremantle Print Award, Fremantle, Australia
What I Am* @ Breadbox Gallery, Perth, Australia

2003–2008

Joondalup Invitational Art Award, Perth, Australia

2001

Kommando Konrad Zuse, Hilden, Germany

1996

Fashion, Furniture & Photography, Whangarei, New Zealand

1995

Independent Silence**, Whangarei, New Zealand
Tutors and Allied Staff, Whangarei, New Zealand

1994

Te hua ngatoki* (Graduation Show), Whangarei, New Zealand

collections

City of Perth (7)
City of Wanneroo (2)
Edith Cowan University (3)
Office of Shared Services (3)
Royal Perth Hospital (1)
Various private collections in New Zealand, Australia & Germany

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Above: five #08 (800mm x 1000mm Lightjet Print, Edition of 5, 2008).

Above: drei #07 (700mm x 1000mm Lightjet Print, Edition of 5, 2007).

Above: Kommando Konrad Zuse* (150+ 20cm x 20cm image and text panels, 3 headphones, 2001). Viewers (re)move panels to create new dialogues between images and text.

Above: Silence (32 30cm x 30cm photographic tiles, vinyl film, 1994).