Lana. Pastel on canvas. 2006.
THE MAKING OF THE LIGHTSHADE
Mixed Media. Cotton, enamel paint, nylon, plaster. 13th November, 2006
This work was made for my kitchen area. The concept is in regard to the loss of my hair.
A few years before, I had asked a singing student (who was a hairdresser by trade), to trim my very long blonde waist length hair.
When she had finished she had actually cut most of my
hair off without me realising. After that I decided to dye my hair black. Jealousy can be such a pain in the ……
LIZARDS
Ink drawing on acid-free paper. July 2006
The idea for this was to draw what isn’t real as a real image and to use the positive spacing as a
negative interpretation. So for example, the naked lady daydreaming of monsters attacking her is
being attacked by lizards, with a man drawn facing her, thought there is a face
drawn on the back of his jacket, looking the other way. Other images drawn in this imaginatively convoluted drawing are
nerd head, king’s head, crossed, houses, a letter, a clown, a rose, a shower head with sprays and drips, buildings , snake,
steps, roads that lead to nowhere, cogs and loopy tubing, other odd bits, and lizards attacking as if on a city!
I think Freud may have something to think about with this one!
HIGH PRIESTESS
ink on acid free paper. July, 2006
Three types of chests are being exposed here. The High Priestess is exposing her chest, there is
also a chest fulls of skulls in it, and the lid is wide open, and also the chest of drawers, which both drawers are open
of which the top drawer is full to the brim of coins. She holds one of them in her right hand
which she guards close to her body.
The Sun rises in the East. There is a Mobilum above her head
which signifies infinity and the endless circles of cycles. There is a mirror on the wall behind the chest of drawers
which reflects the back of her head and crown. The night sky in the East…or is it the West?…
shows an apple tree with 9 apples. Her right foot is shackled, with a key right beside it to unlock it any time. Her left foot looks clubbed,
or perhaps, protecting the shackled foot. The wall and the flooring are woven matting, and is full of square, white spacing into
nothingness…or white light from the sun? An arrow with three hearts surrounding it points directly at her head. She wears a star
on a necklace on her chest. The Moon is high in the black sky.
The concept of this drawing is full of Esoteric symbolism.
FAIRFAX NEWSPAPER. IT’S LIVING SCULPTURE 2006 CLIPPING.
JAM PACKED
Drawing on acid free paper. April, 2006
When I’m busy , soo busy with art work, sometimes some parts
of the table are reserved for sanity..and it STILL gets messy too!
PEA AND SPOON
Treated Plaster. @ 1 metre length. 2005.
The ‘pea’ is actually the size of a small basketball. This was made after my uni studies were completed.
It was sold shortly after making it.
THE PARTY (SERIES OF TWO)
Top & Bottom: . Ink and watercolour on acid free card. 2006
I went to two parties in one day. The top one is the first one I went to, then the bottom one
was at night when I arrived there. Two very different parties. The top party was full of family and children
and gays and straights, and puppy dogs and heaps of babies and children getting lost in the crowd.
It was so much fun to be watching on the side.
By the time I got to the 2nd party it was late and the booze and the talking was quite
the all time low. It was all time satiety …and I wondered how it would have been if I had had these two parties’
time-switched. Probably exactly the same. Same props, different actors.
All the ‘sane’ people had left and gone home, and the late stayers too tired to shift.
PLAY BY THE RULES
Mixed Media on canvas. 2006
This work is made of paint, plaster, cedar wood, rope,sand.
This work is a conceptual piece, telling us that time is not necessarily in our favour,
but if you play by the rules than maybe you will have a few wins along the way.
BREAKFAST SCULPTURE. CIRCA 2006
Breakfast Sculpture. Mixed Media. Circa 2006.
This work is a wall hanging. Who wouldn’t want to have a breakfast like this?
Raw bacon, green bread and butter, squashed, cooked tomato,
hard peas, and two eggs that have dripped off the plate, down the wall?